Patent ID: 11966681
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The non-transitory machine-readable storage media of claim 1,
wherein the one or more zones is one of:
a current block, wherein a geometry of the current block defines the zone;
a bounding box described by coordinates relative to the current block, wherein the bounding box defines the zone;
a cell at any design hierarchy wherein the geometry of the cell defines a boundary of the zone;
a net or bus at any level of hierarchy, wherein a bounding box of the net defines the zone;
a blockage, placement, or routing, wherein a geometry of the blockage, placement, or routing defines the zone; and
a gutter or a range of gutters, wherein a bounding box of gutters from a start gutter to an end gutter defines the zone.