Patents by Inventor Paul Mesa

Paul Mesa 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).

  • Evaluation of pin geometry accessibility in a layer of circuit
    Patent number: 8904335
    Abstract: Evaluation of electrical accessibility within a layer of a circuit to pin geometries residing within a cell boundary of the circuit is provided. The evaluating includes, for instance, checking along substantially parallel pin geometry access paths of the layer to determine possible points at which a respective pin geometry of the pin geometries within the cell boundary may be accessed. The evaluating also includes identifying which points of the possible points are accessible access points by any route of the possible routes for electrically connecting to a respective pin geometry of the pin geometries from a first side or a second side of the cell boundary, wherein at least one point of the possible points is identified as not being an accessible access point based on the at least one point being inaccessible by the possible routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Yoshida, Lei Yuan, Paul Mesa
  • EVALUATION OF PIN GEOMETRY ACCESSIBILITY IN A LAYER OF CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20140289695
    Abstract: Evaluation of electrical accessibility within a layer of a circuit to pin geometries residing within a cell boundary of the circuit is provided. The evaluating includes, for instance, checking along substantially parallel pin geometry access paths of the layer to determine possible points at which a respective pin geometry of the pin geometries within the cell boundary may be accessed. The evaluating also includes identifying which points of the possible points are accessible access points by any route of the possible routes for electrically connecting to a respective pin geometry of the pin geometries from a first side or a second side of the cell boundary, wherein at least one point of the possible points is identified as not being an accessible access point based on the at least one point being inaccessible by the possible routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Yoshida, Lei Yuan, Paul Mesa