Patents by Inventor Glendine Kingsbury

Glendine Kingsbury 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).

  • Patent number: 8549459
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, an object oriented autorouter is disclosed for routing nets in a circuit. The object oriented autorouter includes a routing data model (RDM); at least one routing engine, such as a single connection router (SCR), a topographical (TOPO) transformation engine, and a detail geometric (DETAIL) engine, and a command and control module (CCM) coupled together. The RDM reads and write data with a design database as well as reading one or more object oriented design constraints. Each of the routing engines have at least one action to operate on the design database to improve compliance of the circuit to a constraint. The CCM controls the overall routing process of the nets in the circuit and includes at least one director to invoke at least one of the routing engines to achieve compliance with one or more constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Sean Bergan, Charles W. Grant, Glendine Kingsbury, Randall Lawson, Jelena Radumilo-Frankilin, Kota Sujan Reddy, Steve Russo, William Schilp, Davis Tsai, Keith Woodward, Richard Woodward, Jia Wu
  • Patent number: 7761836
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, an object oriented autorouter is disclosed for routing nets in a circuit. The object oriented autorouter includes a routing data model (RDM); at least one routing engine, such as a single connection router (SCR), a topographical (TOPO) transformation engine, and a detail geometric (DETAIL) engine, and a command and control module (CCM) coupled together. The RDM reads and write data with a design database as well as reading one or more object oriented design constraints. Each of the routing engines have at least one action to operate on the design database to improve compliance of the circuit to a constraint. The CCM controls the overall routing process of the nets in the circuit and includes at least one director to invoke at least one of the routing engines to achieve compliance with one or more constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Sean Bergan, Charles W. Grant, Glendine Kingsbury, Randall Lawson, Jelena Radumilo-Franklin, Kota Sujan Reddy, Steve Russo, William Schilp, Davis Tsai, Keith Woodward, Richard Woodward, Jia Wu
  • Patent number: 7017137
    Abstract: An automated method and system is disclosed to determine an Integrated Circuit (IC) package interconnect routing using a mathematical topological solution. A global topological routing solution is determined to provide singular ideal IC package routing solution. Topological Global Routing provides a mathematical abstraction of the problem that allows multiple optimizations to be performed prior to detailed routing. Preliminary disregard of electrical routing segment width and required clearance allows the global topological solution to be determined quickly. The global topological solution is used in conjunction with necessary design parameters to determine the optimal geometric routing solution. Guide points are determined using the geometric routing solution. A detail router uses the guide points as corners when performing the actual routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Glendine Kingsbury
  • Publication number: 20030126578
    Abstract: An automated method and system is disclosed to determine an Integrated Circuit (IC) package interconnect routing using a mathematical topological solution. A global topological routing solution is determined to provide singular ideal IC package routing solution. Topological Global Routing provides a mathematical abstraction of the problem that allows multiple optimizations to be performed prior to detailed routing. Preliminary disregard of electrical routing segment width and required clearance allows the global topological solution to be determined quickly. The global topological solution is used in conjunction with necessary design parameters to determine the optimal geometric routing solution. Guide points are determined using the geometric routing solution. A detail router uses the guide points as comers when performing the actual routing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Glendine Kingsbury
  • Patent number: 6516447
    Abstract: An automated method and system is disclosed to determine an Integrated Circuit (IC) package interconnect routing using a mathematical topological solution. A global topological routing solution is determined to provide singular ideal IC package routing solution. Topological Global Routing provides a mathematical abstraction of the problem that allows multiple optimizations to be performed prior to detailed routing. Preliminary disregard of electrical routing segment width and required clearance allows the global topological solution to be determined quickly. The global topological solution is used in conjunction with necessary design parameters to determine the optimal geometric routing solution. Guide points are determined using the geometric routing solution. A detail router uses the guide points as corners when performing the actual routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Glendine Kingsbury
  • Publication number: 20030009738
    Abstract: An automated method and system is disclosed to determine an Integrated Circuit (IC) package interconnect routing using a mathematical topological solution. A global topological routing solution is determined to provide singular ideal IC package routing solution. Topological Global Routing provides a mathematical abstraction of the problem that allows multiple optimizations to be performed prior to detailed routing. Preliminary disregard of electrical routing segment width and required clearance allows the global topological solution to be determined quickly. The global topological solution is used in conjunction with necessary design parameters to determine the optimal geometric routing solution. Guide points are determined using the geometric routing solution. A detail router uses the guide points as corners when performing the actual routing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Ken Wadland, Glendine Kingsbury