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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Per M. Bjesse, Portland, OR (US);
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented representation of a circuit design is reduced by representing the circuit design as a data structure defining a netlist. A first set of nodes is identified in the netlist that includes datapath nodes, preferably nodes that do not intermingle data and control. The first set of nodes is segmented into segment widths that correspond to uniformly treated segments of the corresponding words. A second set of nodes, including nodes that intermingle data and control, are converted into bit-level nodes. The segmented nodes are analyzed to define reduced safe sizes by applying a computer implemented function. An updated data structure representing the circuit design is then generated using the reduced safe sizes of the segmented nodes.