Patent ID: 8667445

Claim:
A power mesh management method executed by a computer, applicable to place a power mesh in an integrated circuit having at least one macro block, where each macro block comprises at least one macro block power supplying line growing along in a first direction, the management method comprising: defining, using the computer, a plurality of first power supplying lines located in a metal layer above the macro block, wherein each of the first supplying lines grows along in the first direction; defining, using the computer, a plurality of second power supplying lines located in another metal layer above the macro block, wherein each of the second supplying lines grows along in a second direction; defining, using the computer, a partial power supplying line, overlapping the macro block power supplying line, from the plurality of first power supplying lines; removing, using the computer, the partial power supplying line from the plurality of first power supplying lines; and defining at least one parallel shifted power supplying line growing along the first direction from positions other than the position occupied by the partial power supplying line.