Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Methods and systems of enabling concurrent editing of hierarchical electronic circuit layouts

Abstract:

Embodiments described herein provide a new layout editor tool allowing designers to concurrently edit various aspects of an electronic circuit layout, even at disparate hierarchical levels of the design. The new layout editor tool enables multiple electronic circuit designers to concurrently edit a layout a different hierarchical levels, by logically establishing editable child sub cell-level partitions within a parent layout-level partition, each of which representing various components of the same electronic circuit layout.