Patent 7464362 was granted and assigned to Altera on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for designing a system on a target device includes merging a post-fit netlist for a first partition of the system from a set-up compilation with a post-synthesis netlist for a second partition of the system from an incremental compilation to form a combined netlist. Fitting is performed on the combined netlist.