Patent ID: 7103867

Claim:
A computer program product for defining power slits in a power bus located on a chip, comprising: a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied in said computer usable medium for causing an application program to execute on an operating system of a computer, said computer readable program code means comprising: a computer readable first program code means for locating the power bus in a defined region of the chip; a computer readable second program code means for determining a first number of power slits to be generated in a horizontal direction of the power bus; a computer readable third program code means for determining a second number of power slits to be generated in a vertical direction of the power bus; and a computer readable fourth program code means for defining the power slits in the horizontal and vertical directions of the power bus according to said first and second numbers of power slits calculated by the second program code means and the third program code means, respectively.