Patent ID: 7398487

Claim:
A method for porting a circuit design instantiated in a Programmable Logic Device to an Application Specific Integrated Circuit, comprising: resolving the circuit design as instantiated in the Programmable Logic Device into a circuit listing; selecting circuit blocks from a database responsive to the circuit listing, the database including component representations associated with the Programmable Logic Device, the circuit blocks selected including predetermined placement information therefor; and generating integrated circuit information responsive to the circuit blocks selected, the integrated circuit information including the placement information, the placement information predetermined from placement of the circuit blocks as previously placed for the Programmable Logic Device, the integrated circuit information for forming a structured Application Specific Integrated Circuit having the circuit blocks selected placed responsive to the placement information; wherein the circuit blocks selected responsive to the circuit listing are a subset of all programmable logic blocks of the Programmable Logic Device omitting unused ones of the programmable logic blocks resolved from instantiation of the circuit design in the Programmable Logic Device.