Patent 7539964 was granted and assigned to Fujitsu on May, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A computer-readable record medium having a program embodied therein for causing a computer to place cells. The program includes codes for causing the computer to perform deriving an amount of current consumed by each cell constituting a net list, placing a cell of interest in a layout plane while securing around the cell of interest an area having a size that is responsive to the derived amount of current consumed by the cell of interest and that is larger than an actual size of the cell of interest, and placing other cells such that any other cells than the cell of interest are not placed in the area.