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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph R. Walston, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5031 (2013.01); G06F 1/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/505 (2013.01); G06F 2217/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for optimizing a circuit design includes computing clock latency estimates for a set of sequential circuit elements, modifying the clock latency estimates based on relative optimizability of (1) a set of input data paths that are electrically coupled to one or more inputs of the sequential circuit element and (2) a set of output data paths that are electrically coupled to one or more outputs of the sequential circuit element, and optimizing the circuit design based on the modified clock latencies.