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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael A. Kazda, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Arjen A. Mets, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Lakshmi N. Reddy, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Cindy S. Washburn, Poughquag, NY (US);
Nancy Y. Zhou, Cedar Park, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for optimizing microprocessor gates in a microprocessor includes receiving, via a processor, a dataset comprising a model of a plurality of gates of a microprocessor; determining, via the processor, whether a transmission line in the model, if implemented in a physical circuit, would result a signal transmission time less than a predetermined threshold time; applying to the model, via the processor, a proposed gate change to one or more of the plurality of gates; evaluating, via the processor and an area degradation based on the proposed gate change; determining, via the processor, a margin value based on the signal transmission time and an area degradation value; and making, via the processor, a gate change decision based on the margin value.