International Business Machines Corporation

Prasad Shivaram

Mitesh A Agrawal

Santosh Balasubramanian

Pradeep N Chatnahalli

Methods for allocating spare latch circuits to logic blocks in an integrated circuit design are provided. A method includes determining logic blocks in the design and determining and determining an allocation of spare latch circuits among the logic blocks based on respective attributes of the logic blocks. The method further include placing the spare latch circuits in the design in accordance with the determined allocation based on local clock buffers corresponding with the logic blocks.

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