Freescale Semiconductor,inc.

Osnat Arad

Asher Berkovitz

Amir Grinshpon

An apparatus for and a method of making a hierarchical integrated circuit design of an integrated circuit design, a computer program product and a non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium are provided. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving an hierarchical integrated circuit design, a selector for selecting a candidate output pin, a cloner for adapting the hierarchical integrated circuit design, a re-connector for adapting the hierarchical integrated circuit design, and an output for outputting the adapted hierarchical circuit design. Optionally, the apparatus comprises a timing improver. The apparatus selects a candidate output pin of an IP block that is a node on at least two timing paths that have contradictory timing violations. The candidate output pin is cloned and at least one of the timings paths is connected to the cloned output pin for one of the instances of the IP block.

Apparatus for and a method of making a hierarchical integrated circuit design of an integrated circuit design, a computer program product and a non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium

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Hertzelia, Israel

Osnat Arad