Patents by Inventor Fa-Ta Chen

Fa-Ta Chen 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 of macro placement and a non-transitory computer readable medium thereof
    Patent number: 10372861
    Abstract: A method of macro placement includes partitioning an entire region of a semiconductor chip into sub-regions; determining a packing sequence of a plurality of movable macros in the sub-region; extracting search points of a plurality of placed blocks in the sub-region with respect to one of the movable macros; determining a feasible region associated with the search point; packing said movable macro in the feasible region; evaluating a legalizing cost function; and determining whether a value of the evaluated legalizing cost function is less than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: NCKU Research and Development Foundation, Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Chia-Min Lin, Te-Wei Peng, Fa-Ta Chen, Chia-Ching Huang
  • METHOD OF MACRO PLACEMENT AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF
    Publication number: 20180150583
    Abstract: A method of macro placement includes partitioning an entire region of a semiconductor chip into sub-regions; determining a packing sequence of a plurality of movable macros in the sub-region; extracting search points of a plurality of placed blocks in the sub-region with respect to one of the movable macros; determining a feasible region associated with the search point; packing said movable macro in the feasible region; evaluating a legalizing cost function; and determining whether a value of the evaluated legalizing cost function is less than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Chia-Min Lin, Te-Wei Peng, Fa-Ta Chen, Chia-Ching Huang