A feasible floorplan of a circuit is determined and budgeted in the early phases of circuit design. The process of determining the floorplan and budget includes estimating RTL complexity, physical partitioning, block placement, block i/o placement and top level global routing, and verifying feasibility...http://www.google.com.tw/patents/US6622291?utm_source=gb-gplus-share專利 US6622291 - Method and apparatus for physical budgeting during RTL floorplanning
