Patents by Inventor Kevin SAVIDGE

Kevin SAVIDGE 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).

  • FLOORPLAN ANNEAL USING PERTURBATION OF SELECTED AUTOMATED MACRO PLACEMENT RESULTS
    Publication number: 20150199464
    Abstract: A method of designing a floorplan for an integrated circuit comprises executing one or more automated placement processes on one or more seed floorplans to generate at least one output floorplan for each of the one or more seed floorplans, wherein the one or more automated placement processes are included in a plurality of pre-selected automated placement processes. The method further comprises computing a quality score for each output floorplan and, based on the quality scores, selecting at least one of the output floorplans for further execution via at least one automated placement process included in the plurality of pre-selected automated placement processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick Alan SPROULE, Shrivathsa BHARGAVRAVICHANDRAN, Karthik SUNDARAM, Kevin SAVIDGE