Patents by Inventor Dazhuang J. Ma

Dazhuang J. Ma 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 for parallel processing of semiconductor chip designs
    Patent number: 8020134
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for parallel processing of semiconductor chip designs. One embodiment of a method for processing a semiconductor chip design includes flattening a netlist corresponding to the semiconductor chip design, performing logic clustering on one or more logic elements incorporated in the flattened netlist to generate one or more clusters, partitioning the semiconductor chip design in accordance with the one or more clusters, and designing the individual partitions in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Dotson, Anthony DeGroff Drumm, Dazhuang J. Ma, Ruchir Puri, Louise H. Trevillyan
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP DESIGNS
    Publication number: 20090217227
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for parallel processing of semiconductor chip designs. One embodiment of a method for processing a semiconductor chip design includes flattening a netlist corresponding to the semiconductor chip design, performing logic clustering on one or more logic elements incorporated in the flattened netlist to generate one or more clusters, partitioning the semiconductor chip design in accordance with the one or more clusters, and designing the individual partitions in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: MICHAEL W. DOTSON, Anthony DeGroff Drumm, Dazhuang J. Ma, Ruchir Puri, Louise H. Trevillyan