CN112800702B

CN112800702B - R-corner automatic layout and wiring method and device and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN112800702B
Application number: CN202110148584.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 詹洁; 杨祖声; 刘�东
Original assignee: Beijing Empyrean Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Empyrean Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-02-03
Filing date: 2021-02-03
Publication date: 2022-04-15
Anticipated expiration: 2041-02-03
Also published as: CN112800702A

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an R-corner automatic layout and wiring method, an apparatus and a storage medium, the method comprising: the layout of the R corners is planned to be a two-circle structure formed by a GOA unit and a CLK unit, and the GOA unit is positioned between the CLK unit and the pixel area; carrying out orthogonal layout on the GOA units; performing rotary layout on the CLK unit; the wiring is made between the pixel region and the GOA unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and between the CLK unit and the CLK unit. The layout of two circles of structures has the technical effects of simplifying the R-angle layout and reducing the space for the R-angle wiring.

Description

R-corner automatic layout and wiring method and device and storage medium

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the field of automated electronic design, in particular to an R-angle automated layout and wiring method, equipment and a storage medium.

Background

In the design scheme of the full-face screen, no matter the design of the Notch of the apple main push or the Huawei water drop Notch is adopted, the screen corners (R corners for short) of the rounded rectangle are the common design concept. When the design engineer designs the R corner, the workload is greatly increased compared to a rectangular screen.

In the prior art, a three-ring structure is adopted to realize automatic layout and wiring of an R corner, that is, the R corner layout plan is divided into three-ring structures of a Buffer rotation unit, a GOA unit and a GLK unit from inside to outside, the Buffer rotation unit is in rotation layout, the GOA unit is in orthogonal layout, and the CLK unit is in rotation layout; then, the connection lines are respectively connected between the Buffer rotating unit and the Buffer rotating unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit and between the CLK unit and the CLK unit.

Although the method can quickly complete the layout and wiring of the R corner, the following defects also exist: firstly, the layout is relatively complex; secondly, the GOA unit needs to be connected with the CLK unit and the Buffer rotation unit, and wires need to be routed between the CLK unit and between the Buffer unit and the Buffer unit, which causes space waste to a certain extent.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the technical problem, the present disclosure provides an R-corner automatic layout and routing method, device and storage medium, which can simplify R-corner layout and reduce the space occupied by R-corner routing.

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides an R-corner automatic layout and wiring method, including:

the layout of the R corners is planned to be a two-circle structure formed by a GOA unit and a CLK unit, and the GOA unit is positioned between the CLK unit and the pixel area;

carrying out orthogonal layout on the GOA units;

performing rotary layout on the CLK unit;

the wiring is performed between the pixel unit and the GOA unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and between the CLK unit and the CLK unit in the pixel region.

Optionally, the orthogonal layout of the GOA units includes:

determining a connecting line pixel unit row of the GOA units in the pixel area according to a preset step length, wherein the preset step length indicates the number of the pixel unit rows controlled by one GOA unit;

determining the minimum line number of pixel unit lines occupied by placing a GOA unit according to the GOA unit height;

and orthogonally laying out GOA units on the side of a unit row group including the connecting line pixel unit row, wherein the row number of the pixel units included in the unit row group is equal to the minimum row number.

Optionally, the orthogonally laying out the GOA units at the side of the unit row group including the connected pixel unit row includes:

the GOA units are orthogonally arranged on the side of the unit row group in a mode that the GOA units are in contact with the unit row group but are not overlapped;

or, the GOA units are orthogonally arranged on the side of the unit row group in a mode of spacing the GOA units from the unit row group and spacing the GOA units from the obstacles.

Optionally, the orthogonally laying out the GOA units at the sides of the cell row group in a manner that the GOA units are in contact with the cell row group but are not overlapped, includes:

extracting a first pixel unit row which is in pre-contact with the GOA unit from the unit row group according to the preset step length and the minimum row number;

extracting a second pixel unit row with the smallest sequence number from the unit row group according to the preset step length, wherein the sequence number is a row sequence number obtained by arranging the pixel unit rows in a pixel gradually protruding mode;

and orthogonally arranging GOA units based on the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row.

Optionally, orthogonally laying out the GOA units on the sides of the cell row group in a manner that the GOA units are spaced apart from the cell row group, including:

obtaining a configuration value of a minimum distance between a GOA unit and a pixel area to obtain a first configuration value;

acquiring a minimum spacing configuration value of a GOA unit and a barrier at the side of a pixel area to obtain a second configuration value;

and determining the placing position of the GOA unit on the side of the unit row group according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value so as to orthogonally arrange the GOA unit at the placing position.

Optionally, determining a placement position of the GOA unit at the side of the unit row group according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value includes:

acquiring a first candidate horizontal position of a GOA unit corresponding to the first configuration value on the side of the unit row group;

acquiring a second candidate horizontal position of the GOA unit corresponding to the second configuration value on the side of the unit row group;

and determining one of the first candidate horizontal position and the second candidate horizontal position which is farther from the unit row group as the horizontal placing position of the GOA unit.

Optionally, the connecting between the pixel unit and the GOA unit in the pixel region includes: and adopting positive intersection between pixel units and GOA units in the pixel area to generate a wiring.

Optionally, the R-corner automatic layout and routing method further includes: a mode selection instruction is received, wherein,

the planning of the R-corner layout into a two-turn structure formed by GOA units and CLK units is performed in the case that the mode selection instruction selects the two-turn structure;

and if the mode selection command is a command for selecting a three-turn structure, adopting the three-turn structure to perform R-angle wiring.

On the other hand, the present disclosure also provides an R-angle automatic layout and wiring device, including:

a processor;

a memory for storing one or more programs;

wherein the one or more programs are executed by the processor such that the processor implements any of the R-corner automated place and route methods described above.

In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, implements any one of the R-corner automatic layout and routing methods described above.

The beneficial effects of this disclosure are:

the R corner layout is planned to be a two-circle structure formed by a GOA unit and a CLK unit, and the GOA unit is positioned between the CLK unit and a pixel area; carrying out orthogonal layout on the GOA units; performing rotary layout on the CLK unit; the wiring is made between the pixel region and the GOA unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and between the CLK unit and the CLK unit. The present disclosure simplifies the R-angle layout by the layout based on the two-turn structure, and the two-turn structure also reduces the wiring due to the simplification of the structure, thereby reducing the space used for the R-angle wiring.

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The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent from the following description of the embodiments of the present disclosure with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary R angle;

FIG. 2 illustrates an interactive interface provided by the disclosed R-corner automated place and route apparatus for a user;

FIG. 3 shows the layout obtained by using the three-turn structure for the R-corner shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 illustrates another interactive interface provided by the disclosed R-corner automated place and route apparatus to a user;

FIG. 5 illustrates one layout resulting from the use of the two-turn structure of the present disclosure for the R corner shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 illustrates a second layout using the two-turn structure of the present disclosure for the R corner shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 illustrates a third layout using the two-turn structure of the present disclosure for the R corner shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 illustrates a fourth type of layout resulting from the use of the two-turn structure of the present disclosure for the R corner shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 illustrates a flow chart of the disclosed R-corner automated place and route method;

fig. 10 illustrates an exemplary connection between a GOA cell and a pixel cell in the present disclosure;

fig. 11 shows a schematic structural diagram of the R-corner automated place and route apparatus of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

To facilitate an understanding of the present disclosure, the present disclosure will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are set forth in the accompanying drawings. However, the present disclosure may be embodied in different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. The terminology used in the description of the disclosure herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure.

According to the related art, the R corner requires layout of a GOA unit (i.e., a Gate Driver on Array unit, which is translated into an Array substrate Gate driving unit) and a CLK unit (i.e., a clock unit, which is translated into a clock unit), and also requires wiring between the CLK unit and the CLK unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and between the GOA unit and the pixel unit of the pixel region. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an R corner at the upper left corner of a screen, which shows a pixel area A and a plurality of obstacles B at the sides of the pixel area, wherein a plurality of pixel unit rows with digital marks are distributed in the pixel area A, and the pixel unit rows are in a multi-stage step shape following the R corner; the obstacles are scattered irregularly at the sides of the pixel region. The difficulty of R compared with the layout and wiring is that the environments of the layout of the GOA units are different, the layout of the GOA units not only needs to be placed at a proper position outside a pixel area in consideration of a control function, but also needs to enable the wiring to avoid obstacles or not avoid the obstacles according to specific conditions. The prior art introduces an auxiliary unit, i.e. a Buffer rotation unit, to form a three-turn structure and implement automatic layout and wiring of an R corner based on the three-turn structure, and although the method can quickly complete layout and wiring of the R corner, the following disadvantages also exist: firstly, the layout is relatively complex; secondly, the GOA unit needs to be respectively connected with the CLK unit and the Buffer rotating unit, and wiring is needed between the CLK unit and between the Buffer unit and the Buffer unit, so that space waste is caused by the wiring to a certain extent

Based on the method, the equipment and the storage medium, the R-angle automatic layout and wiring method and equipment based on the two-turn structure are provided, the R-angle layout can be simplified, and the occupied space of the R-angle wiring can be reduced.

Example one

The R-angle automatic layout and wiring method provided by the disclosure is executed through R-angle automatic layout and wiring equipment, mainly characterized in that a two-circle structure is introduced to realize R-angle automatic layout and wiring, and further the two-circle structure can be combined with a three-circle structure to form a multi-mode R-angle automatic layout and wiring method.

Specifically, a user can input a mode selection instruction to the R-angle automatic layout and wiring device, and then the R-angle automatic layout and wiring device determines whether to adopt a two-turn structure or a three-turn structure to realize R-angle automatic layout and wiring according to the mode selection instruction.

Fig. 2 shows an interactive interface provided by the R-corner automatic layout and routing device for a user, where the user clicks a first icon in a column of a Pattern to indicate a mode selection instruction for inputting a three-circle structure to the R-corner automatic layout and routing device, and the interactive interface presents some parameters to be set by the three-circle structure to the user. Referring to fig. 2, after setting various parameters required by the three-turn structure in the interactive interface for the R-angle shown in fig. 1, the user clicks a button "OK" to run the layout and wiring of the three-turn structure shown in fig. 3. Since the layout and wiring of the three-turn structure belongs to the prior art, the three-turn structure is not repeated in the present disclosure.

Fig. 4 shows another interactive interface provided by the R-corner automatic layout and routing device for the user, where the user clicks a second icon on a column of a Pattern to indicate a mode selection instruction for inputting a selection instruction for selecting a two-circle structure to the R-corner automatic layout and routing device, and the interactive interface presents some parameters to be set for the two-circle structure to the user. Referring to fig. 4, after setting various parameters required by the two-turn structure in the interactive interface for the R corner shown in fig. 1, the user clicks a button "OK" to run the layout of the three-turn structure shown in fig. 5, 6, 7, or 8, wherein the GOA unit is marked by the letter "C" and the CLK unit is marked by the letter "D".

Referring to fig. 4, parameters to be set for the two-turn structure are, for example:

(1) placing Side: the region selection for the R-corner layout wiring is specified, and either Left (Left) or Right (Right) may be selected.

(2) Pixel: pixels of the Panel are designated, and a basic outline of the layout wiring, gate ports of the Pixel cells, and the like are determined.

(3) X Space to Pixel: a minimum distance of the contents of the place and route from the pixel unit in the horizontal direction is specified.

(4) Step: the step size is preset, and the number of pixel unit rows controlled by one GOA unit is specified.

(5) Plaving Mode: layout and routing range designation, 3 modes are provided: all, Part, and Corner Area, where All specifies the entire R angle, Part specifies the Area of rows from Begin to End, and Corner Area specifies the Area covered by the layer pattern (note that there can only be one in the current design).

(6) Block: cells around the corner R are designated as obstacles, such as ESD, Switch, Fanout, etc. Support for setting the minimum distance of the R corner layout wiring content relative to each Block.

(7) GOA Cells: GOA Cells were designated.

(8) Clk Cells: clk Cells were designated.

(9) Connection: specifying a connection, including the options: GOA To Pixel, selecting the item, and connecting the GOA unit To the Pixel unit; clk to GOA, select this item, carry on the line of Clk unit to GOA unit;

(10) out line: the contour of the GOA cell and the CLK cell at the time of contour calculation is specified.

Comparing fig. 2 and 4, the parameters provided in the interface of fig. 2 further include: buffer Cells and Buffer Cell To Pixel, GOA To Buffer Cell, wherein Buffer Cells: assigning Buffer Cells; if the Buffer Cell To Pixel is selected, connecting the Buffer unit To the Pixel unit; and if the GOA TO Buffer Cell is selected, connecting the GOA unit TO the Buffer unit.

The following gives an emphasis to the detailed description of the two-turn structure-based R-angle automatic layout and wiring method provided by the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 shows a schematic flow chart of an R-corner automatic layout and routing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Referring to fig. 9, the R-corner automatic layout and routing method includes:

step S120, the layout of the R corners is planned to be a two-turn structure formed by the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and the GOA unit is located between the CLK unit and the pixel region.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the rows of the pixel units in the pixel area follow the R corners in a multi-step shape, and the two-turn structure, i.e., the CLK units form a first turn structure at the sides of the pixel area and the GOA units form a second turn structure between the pixel area and the first turn structure.

Step S140, the GOA units are orthogonally arranged, that is, all the GOA units are arranged in parallel.

In step S160, the CLK units are laid out in a rotation manner, that is, the CLK units are disposed in compliance with the R angle, so that at least some of the CLK units are not disposed in a parallel manner.

In step S180, lines are connected between the pixel units of the pixel region and the GOA units, between the GOA units and the CLK units, and between the CLK units and the CLK units.

It should be noted that, after the GOA units and the CLK units are laid out, there is no phenomenon of overlapping among a plurality of GOA units or between a plurality of CLK units, or there is no phenomenon of overlapping between a CLK unit and a pixel unit or between a GOA unit and a pixel unit.

The embodiment of the disclosure realizes automatic layout and wiring of an R corner based on a two-circle structure, wherein the two-circle structure is formed by a GOA unit and a CLK unit which are functional devices required by layout, and no auxiliary unit is introduced into the two-circle structure, so that the layout is simplified compared with a three-circle structure; and the simplification of the layout structure also enables the wiring requirement to be greatly reduced, thereby reducing the space occupied by wiring.

In an alternative embodiment, in step S140, the orthogonal layout of the GOA units includes: the method comprises the steps of determining a connecting line pixel unit row of GOA units in a pixel area according to a preset step length, determining a minimum line number ds of the pixel unit row occupied by placing one GOA unit according to the height of the GOA unit, and then orthogonally arranging the GOA units on the side of a unit row group including the connecting line pixel unit row, wherein the number of the pixel unit rows included in the unit row group is equal to the minimum line number ds.

Specifically, a preset step indicates the number of pixel unit rows controlled by one GOA unit, and the line connecting pixel unit rows of the GOA units in the pixel area are determined according to the preset step, namely, a plurality of pixel unit rows in the pixel area are grouped by taking the preset step as a unit to obtain a plurality of control groups to be controlled; then, only one pixel unit row in each group to be controlled is led out of the electric wire and connected with the GOA unit. Further, an uppermost one of the pixel cell rows or a lowermost one of the pixel cell rows in each of the groups to be controlled may be determined as a line pixel cell row in the group to be controlled, so that the line pixel cell rows in the entire pixel region are distributed at uniform intervals in a vertical direction (i.e., a direction perpendicular to the pixel cell rows).

The above-mentioned determining the minimum line number ds for placing a pixel unit line occupied by a GOA unit according to the height of the GOA unit means the number of pixel unit lines occupied by a GOA unit when one horizontal edge of the GOA unit is flush with one horizontal edge of the pixel unit. Recording: pixel cell line height, GOA cell height, then the minimum line number ds is the smallest integer no less than pixel.

It should be noted that the GOA units are placed at the side of the unit row group and used for controlling all pixel unit rows in the group to be controlled, and the unit row group should be a partial pixel unit row in the group to be controlled, so as to ensure that the GOA units in a plurality of groups to be controlled do not overlap. In view of this, the number of pixel cell rows within a cell row group is not greater than the number of pixel cell rows within a group to be controlled, and thus pixel.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the GOA cells are orthogonally arranged on the sides of the cell row group including the connected pixel cell rows, that is, the positions of the GOA cells are substantially defined in the vertical direction, so that the GOA cells have a reasonable layout in the vertical direction.

The foregoing side orthogonal layout GOA units on a unit row group including a connected pixel unit row include: the GOA units are orthogonally arranged on the sides of the unit row groups in a mode that the GOA units are in contact with the unit row groups but are not overlapped; alternatively, the GOA cells are orthogonally arranged on the sides of the cell row group so as to be spaced apart from the cell row group and the obstacle. These two cases are described below to illustrate in detail the determination of the specific vertical position and the specific horizontal position of the GOA unit, respectively.

One, orthogonally laying out GOA units on the sides of the unit row group in a mode that the GOA units are contacted with the unit row group but not overlapped

The setting mode includes: extracting a first pixel unit row which is in pre-contact with the GOA unit from the unit row group according to a preset step size and a minimum row number ds; extracting a second pixel unit row with the minimum serial number from the unit row group according to a preset step length, wherein the serial number is a row sequence number obtained by arranging the pixel unit rows in a pixel gradually protruding mode; and orthogonally arranging the GOA units based on the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row.

It should be noted that, the serial number is a row serial number obtained by arranging the pixel unit rows in a pixel gradual protruding manner, fig. 1 shows an R corner at the upper left corner of the screen, and the plurality of pixel unit rows are pixel gradually protruding in order from top to bottom, so that the plurality of pixel unit rows are arranged in a pixel gradual protruding manner, that is, the plurality of pixel unit rows are arranged in order from top to bottom. It should be noted here that, for a rounded rectangular screen, for the corner R at the upper right corner, a plurality of pixel unit rows are arranged in a pixel-by-pixel projecting manner, that is, in order from top to bottom; however, for the R corner of the lower left corner and the lower right corner, the plurality of pixel unit rows are arranged in a pixel-wise projecting manner, that is, in the order from bottom to top.

Specifically, the above-mentioned extracting the first pixel cell row pre-contacted with the GOA cell from the cell row group according to the preset step size and the minimum row number ds may be calculating a sequence number x1 of the first pixel cell row by formula (1).

x1＝ds-1+(i-1)·step+1 (1)

The above-mentioned extracting the second pixel unit row with the smallest sequence number from the unit row group according to the preset step length may be to calculate the sequence number x2 of the second pixel unit row by formula (2).

x2＝(i-1)·step+1 (2)

In the equations (1) and (2), ds and step are defined as described above, and i is the ranking number of the GOA cells in the case where the pixels are arranged so as to gradually protrude.

The abscissa of the boundary of the first pixel unit row, i.e. the abscissa of the boundary line of the first pixel unit row, the R angle shown in fig. 1 can be understood as the abscissa of the vertex at the upper left corner of the first pixel unit row; the ordinate of the convex corner of the second pixel unit row, that is, the vertex of the pixel unit row adjacent to the small-order number on the boundary of the second pixel unit row, may be understood as the ordinate of the vertex at the upper left corner of the second pixel unit row in the R corner shown in fig. 1.

And orthogonally arranging the GOA units on the basis of the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row, namely, taking the point represented by the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row as a reference point, setting a vertex on a contact boundary line of the GOA units and the unit row group on the reference point, and carrying out the arrangement of the GOA units by combining the definition of the second unit row. For the R corner at the upper left corner, the upper right corner of the GOA unit is set on a reference point; for the R corner at the upper right corner, the upper left corner of the GOA unit is set on a reference point; for the R corner at the lower left corner, the lower right corner of the GOA unit is set at the reference point; for the lower right corner R, the lower left corner of the GOA unit is set at the reference point.

The following is exemplified by the angle R shown in fig. 1:

fig. 5 shows the case where step is 1 and ds is 1, in which case the equations (1) and (2) are simplified to x1 being x2 being 2i, i.e. the first pixel cell row and the second pixel cell row are the same; since the height of the GOA units in fig. 5 is equal to the height of the pixel units, each pixel unit row is provided with one GOA unit, and the upper right corner of the ith GOA unit is attached to the upper left corner of the ith pixel unit row to place the GOA unit.

Fig. 6 shows the case where step is 2 and ds is 1, in which case the equations (1) and (2) are simplified to x1 and x2 and 2 · i-1; since the height of the GOA units in fig. 6 is equal to the height of the pixel units, each pixel unit row is provided with one GOA unit, and the upper right corner of the ith GOA unit is attached to the upper left corner of the (2 · i-1) th pixel unit row to place the GOA unit.

According to the setting method, points represented by the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row are used as reference points, the GOA units are set according to the reference points, and the GOA units are specifically limited by the boundary abscissa of the first pixel unit row and the convex ordinate of the second pixel unit row according to the abscissa and the ordinate of the reference points.

(II) orthogonally laying out GOA units on the sides of the unit row groups in a mode of spacing the GOA units from the unit row groups and spacing the obstacles

The setting mode includes: obtaining a configuration value of a minimum distance between a GOA unit and a pixel area to obtain a first configuration value; acquiring a minimum spacing configuration value of a GOA unit and a barrier at the side of a pixel area to obtain a second configuration value; and determining the placing position of the GOA unit at the side of the unit row group according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value so as to orthogonally layout the GOA unit at the placing position.

Specifically, the first configuration value includes a minimum spacing configuration value (also referred to as a first horizontal configuration value) of the GOA unit and the pixel region in the horizontal direction and a minimum spacing configuration value (also referred to as a first vertical configuration value) in the vertical direction; the second configuration values include a minimum spacing configuration value (also referred to as a second horizontal configuration value) in the horizontal direction and a minimum spacing configuration value (also referred to as a second vertical configuration value) in the vertical direction between the GOA unit and the obstacle on the side of the pixel region.

It should be noted that, in practice, the GOA unit and the pixel region are not vertically overlapped, and thus the first vertical configuration value is set to zero by default. Since the plurality of pixel unit rows in the pixel area are stepped at the R-angle, the minimum distance configuration value between the GOA unit and the pixel area is the minimum configuration value of the pixel unit row closest to the GOA unit from the GOA unit. Based on this, the first horizontal arrangement value is the minimum distance arrangement value between the GOA unit and the pixel unit in the horizontal direction when the GOA unit is at least partially on the same horizontal line with the pixel unit.

Similarly, the second horizontal configuration value refers to a minimum distance configuration value between the GOA unit and the obstacle in the horizontal direction when the distance between the GOA unit and the obstacle in the vertical direction is smaller than the second vertical configuration value; the second vertical arrangement value is a minimum distance arrangement value between the GOA unit and the obstacle in the vertical direction when the horizontal arrangement value of the GOA unit and the obstacle is smaller than the second horizontal arrangement value. It should be noted that, if the distance between the GOA unit and an obstacle in the vertical direction is not less than the second vertical configuration value, the GOA unit and the obstacle need not be limited by the second horizontal configuration value; similarly, if the distance between the GOA unit and an obstacle in the horizontal direction is not less than the second horizontal configuration value, the GOA unit and the obstacle need not be limited by the second vertical configuration value.

The placing position of the GOA unit at the side of the unit row group is determined according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value, that is, the placing position of the GOA unit is required to satisfy the condition that the distance between the GOA unit and the pixel area is not less than the first configuration value and the distance between the GOA unit and the obstacle is not less than the second configuration value.

Further, determining the placing position of the GOA unit on the side of the unit row group according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value includes: acquiring a first candidate horizontal position of a GOA unit corresponding to the first configuration value on the side of the unit row group; acquiring a second candidate horizontal position of the GOA unit corresponding to the second configuration value on the side of the unit row group; and determining one candidate horizontal position far away from the cell row group in the first candidate horizontal position and the second candidate horizontal position as the horizontal placing position of the GOA cell, so that the placing position of the GOA cell is closest to the pixel region under the condition that the distance between the placing position of the GOA cell and the pixel region is not smaller than the first configuration value and the distance between the placing position of the GOA cell and the obstacle is not smaller than the second configuration value, namely the layout of the GOA cell is more compact, and the occupied space of the R-angle layout is favorably reduced.

The following is also exemplified by the angle R shown in fig. 1:

fig. 7 shows the case where step 1 and ds 1 are used, where, since the height of the GOA unit is equal to the height of the pixel unit, one GOA unit is orthogonally arranged at the side of each row of pixel units and the upper and lower horizontal boundaries of the GOA unit are all flush with the upper and lower horizontal boundaries of the pixel units in the corresponding row, so that the placement position of the GOA unit in the vertical direction is specifically defined.

The placement position of the GOA unit in the horizontal direction is set based on the first candidate horizontal position and the second candidate horizontal position. For example, the placing positions of the 1 st and 2 nd GOA units in the top-down ordering in fig. 7 are only constrained by the first horizontal configuration value, and the horizontal distance from the pixel area is the first horizontal configuration value; the horizontal distance between the placing position of the 24 th GOA unit and the obstacle is a second horizontal configuration value.

It should be understood that, since the GOA units are spaced from the group of unit rows and the obstacle, i.e. the GOA units are not overlapped with the group of unit rows and the obstacle, the GOA units are placed on the side of the obstacle away from the group of unit rows when the horizontal distance between the obstacle and the group of unit rows is smaller than the sum of the length of the GOA units and the first horizontal configuration value and the second horizontal configuration value. Exemplarily, refer to the placing positions of the GOA cells in row 4 of fig. 7.

Furthermore, after the arrangement of the GOA units is adopted, the placing positions of the individual GOA units can be slightly revised, so that the second ring structure formed by the subsequent CLK units is more attached to the R angle. The layout of the 3 rd GOA cell in fig. 7 is further modified.

Fig. 8 shows the case of step 2 and ds 1, where the height of the GOA unit is equal to the height of the pixel unit, so that one GOA unit may need to be orthogonally arranged at the side of every other pixel unit row and the upper and lower horizontal boundaries of the GOA unit are flush with the upper and lower horizontal boundaries of the laid pixel unit, so that the placement position of the GOA unit in the vertical direction is specifically defined.

The placement position of the GOA unit in the horizontal direction is set based on the first candidate horizontal position and the second candidate horizontal position. For example, the placing position of the 1 st GOA unit from top to bottom in fig. 8 is only constrained by the first horizontal configuration value and the horizontal distance from the pixel area is the first horizontal configuration value; the horizontal distance between the placing position of the 5 th GOA unit and the obstacle is a second horizontal configuration value.

In the setting mode, the GOA unit determines a specific layout abscissa according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value; the vertical coordinate of the layout of the GOA units is located at the side of the unit row group according to the above, and particularly, the layout of the GOA units in the vertical direction can be ensured to be uniform according to the actual values of step and ds.

For the R-corner automatic layout and routing method provided by the present disclosure, the GOA unit is first laid out to form the first ring structure, and the CLK unit is laid out after the first ring structure is formed, which may specifically be: obtaining a convex hull of the GOA unit outline point chain to generate a first reference line, and then attaching the CLK unit to the first reference line for rotational layout (refer to the CLK unit D labeled in fig. 8, where the CLK unit D is attached to a straight line formed by the 2 nd GOA unit and the 3 rd GOA unit point chain), where the reference point is aligned to the GOA unit reference point in the same row when the CLK unit is rotationally laid out (refer to the CLK unit D labeled in fig. 8, and a vertex of the CLK unit D is aligned to a vertex of the upper left corner of the second GOA unit), and the rotation angle is the same as the first reference line. Since the prior three-turn structure discloses the way of the CLK cell rotation layout, the present disclosure does not describe the CLK cell rotation layout in detail.

For the R-angle automatic layout and wiring method provided by the disclosure, direct connection between pixel units and GOA units in a pixel area is also involved. For the direct connection between the pixel unit and the GOA unit in the pixel area, a direct intersection may be adopted between the pixel unit and the GOA unit in the pixel area to generate a wiring. Specifically, the GOA unit leads out a connecting line in a manner perpendicular to the boundary line of the GOA unit, the pixel unit also leads out a connecting line in a manner perpendicular to the boundary line of the GOA unit, and then the two connecting lines are directly connected or connected through another connecting line. In the disclosure, the GOA unit and the pixel unit are arranged in parallel, and if a connecting line led out by the GOA unit and a connecting line led out by the pixel unit are on the same horizontal line, the connecting line led out by the GOA unit and the connecting line led out by the pixel unit are directly connected, and finally, the wiring between the GOA unit and the pixel unit is a horizontal straight line; if the connection line led by the GOA unit and the connection line led by the pixel unit are not on the same horizontal line, the connection line led by the GOA unit and the connection line led by the pixel unit may be connected by a vertical line (as shown in fig. 10) or an oblique line.

Example two

With reference to fig. 11, the present disclosure also presents a block diagram of an exemplary device suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present disclosure. It should be understood that the device shown in fig. 11 is only an example and should not bring any limitations to the function and scope of the disclosed embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 11, device 200 is embodied in a general purpose computing device. The components of device 200 may include, but are not limited to: one or more processors or processing units 210, a memory 220, and a bus 201 that couples the various system components (including the memory 220 and the processing unit 210).

Bus 201 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures. By way of example, such architectures include, but are not limited to, Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, micro-channel architecture (MAC) bus, enhanced ISA bus, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus.

Device 200 typically includes a variety of computer system readable media. Such media may be any available media that is accessible by device 200 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media.

The system memory 220 may include computer system readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as Random Access Memory (RAM)221 and/or cache memory 222. The device 200 may further include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer system storage media. By way of example only, storage system 223 may be used to read from and write to non-removable, nonvolatile magnetic media (not shown in FIG. 11, commonly referred to as a "hard drive"). Although not shown in FIG. 11, a magnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable, nonvolatile magnetic disk (e.g., a "floppy disk") and an optical disk drive for reading from or writing to a removable, nonvolatile optical disk (e.g., a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or other optical media) may be provided. In these cases, each drive may be connected to bus 201 by one or more data media interfaces. Memory 220 may include at least one program product having a set (e.g., at least one) of program modules that are configured to carry out the functions of embodiments of the disclosure.

Program/utility 224 having a set (at least one) of program modules 2241 may be stored, for example, in memory 220, such program modules 2241 including, but not limited to, an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which or some combination of which may comprise an implementation of a network environment. Program modules 2241 generally perform the functions and/or methods of the embodiments described in the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Further, the device 200 may also be communicatively coupled to a display 300 for displaying simulation results of the semiconductor devices, the display 300 may include, but is not limited to, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a Light Emitting Diode (LED) display, and a plasma display. In some embodiments, the display 300 may also be a touch screen.

Further, the device 200 may also communicate with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the device 200 and/or any devices (e.g., network cards, modems, etc.) that enable the device 200 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may be through input/output (I/O) interfaces 230. Also, the device 200 may communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network such as the Internet) via the network adapter 240. As shown, network adapter 240 communicates with the other modules of device 200 via bus 201. It should be understood that although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with device 200, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems, among others.

The processing unit 210 executes various functional applications and data processing by running programs stored in the system memory 220, for example, implementing the R-corner automatic layout and routing method provided in the first embodiment of the present disclosure.

EXAMPLE III

The third embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program (or referred to as computer-executable instructions) is stored, where the computer program is used for executing the corner automation layout and wiring method provided by the first embodiment of the present disclosure when executed by a processor, and the method includes:

carrying out orthogonal layout on the GOA units;

performing rotary layout on the CLK unit;

the wiring is made between the pixel region and the GOA unit, between the GOA unit and the CLK unit, and between the CLK unit and the CLK unit.

The computer storage media of the disclosed embodiments may take any combination of one or more computer-readable media. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the present disclosure, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take many forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may also be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Computer program code for carrying out operations for embodiments of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C + +, and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the case of a remote computer, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet service provider).

Further, in this document, the contained terms "include", "contain" or any other variation thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, a method, an article or an apparatus including a series of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not explicitly listed or inherent to such process, method, article or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Finally, it should be noted that: it should be understood that the above examples are only for clearly illustrating the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications of the invention as herein taught are within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. An R-corner automatic layout and wiring method comprises the following steps:

the R corner layout is planned to be a two-circle structure formed by a GOA unit and a CLK unit, wherein the two-circle structure is that the CLK unit forms a first circle structure on the side of a pixel, and the GOA unit forms a second circle structure between a pixel area and the first circle structure;

carrying out orthogonal layout on the GOA units, wherein the orthogonal layout is that all the GOA units are placed in a mutually parallel mode;

performing a rotation layout on the CLK units, wherein the rotation layout enables the CLK units to be arranged along the R angle so that at least part of the CLK units are not arranged in a parallel mode;

connecting lines between the pixel units of the pixel area and the GOA units, between the GOA units and the CLK units, and between the CLK units and the CLK units;

after the GOA units and the CLK units are arranged, the plurality of GOA units are not overlapped, the plurality of CLK units are not overlapped, the CLK units are not overlapped with the pixel units, and the GOA units are not overlapped with the pixel units.

2. The R-corner automated place and route method of claim 1, wherein the orthogonally placing the GOA cells comprises:

3. The automatic R-corner laying out and routing method according to claim 2, wherein orthogonally laying out the GOA cells at the sides of the cell row group including the connected pixel cell row comprises:

4. The method for automated placement and routing of R corners according to claim 3 wherein orthogonally placing the GOA cells alongside the group of cell rows in such a way that the GOA cells are in contact with but not coincident with the group of cell rows comprises:

5. The method for automatically laying out and routing an R corner according to claim 3, wherein the orthogonal layout of the GOA cells on the sides of the cell row group in such a manner that the GOA cells are spaced apart from the cell row group and from the obstacles comprises:

6. The R-corner automatic placement and routing method of claim 5, wherein determining the placement position of the GOA unit at the side of the unit row group according to the first configuration value and the second configuration value comprises:

7. The automatic R-corner layout and routing method according to claim 1, wherein the wiring between the pixel unit and the GOA unit in the pixel area comprises: and adopting positive intersection between pixel units and GOA units in the pixel area to generate a wiring.

8. The R-corner automated place and route method of claim 1, further comprising: a mode selection instruction is received, wherein,

and if the mode selection instruction is an instruction for selecting a three-turn structure, performing R-angle layout and wiring by adopting the three-turn structure.

9. An R-corner automated place and route apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing one or more programs;

wherein the one or more programs are executed by the processor such that the processor implements the R-corner automated place and route method of any of claims 1-8.

10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, implements the R-corner automated place and route method according to any one of claims 1-8.