Patents by Inventor Brett A. Neal

Brett A. Neal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus to adaptively validate a physical net routing topology of a substrate design
    Patent number: 7111270
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to adaptively validate a physical net routing topology of a substrate design to a target topology of the substrate design. A tree data structure is generated by mapping physical net routing topology objects to tree data structure objects the tree data structure representing the substrate design. The tree data structure is then compressed to form a compressed tree data structure. The compressed tree data structure is validated by comparing the target topology with the compressed tree data structure to determine if the target topology is electrically equivalent to the compressed tree data structure. One or more branches of the validated tree data structure is named, and the validated tree data structure is partitioned and saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brett A. Neal, Neal G. Meyer, Andrew J. McRonald
  • Method and apparatus to adaptively validate a physical net routing topology of a substrate design
    Publication number: 20040168138
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to adaptively validate a physical net routing topology of a substrate design to a target topology of the substrate design. A tree data structure is generated by mapping physical net routing topology objects to tree data structure objects said tree data structure representing the substrate design. The tree data structure is then compressed to form a compressed tree data structure. The compressed tree data structure is validated by comparing the target topology with the compressed tree data structure to determine if the target topology is electrically equivalent to the compressed tree data structure. One or more branches of the validated tree data structure is named, and the validated tree data structure is partitioned and saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Brett A. Neal, Neal G. Meyer, Andrew J. McRonald