An apparatus for designing a layout includes an arranging unit that arranges, on a large-scale-integrated chip, a cell in which a signal line segment that is not connected to a terminal is formed; a wiring unit that wires a signal line to an arbitrary wiring layer of the large-scale-integrated chip; and a connecting unit that connects the signal line segment with the signal line.

 
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> Method and software for generating enable and data input signals for flip-flops used for implementing logic functions on programmable logic devices

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