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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2018
Applicant:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:
Assignee:

Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method of integrated circuit design comprises: using a computer, detecting data communication paths and associated data traffic requirements between a set of data handling nodes in an integrated circuit layout, the data handling nodes acting as routing nodes or either source nodes or sink nodes for a given data communication path, each source node and each sink node having a respective provisional data width, each data communication path having at least one routing node between the source node and the sink node; using the computer, assigning a provisional data width to each routing node so that, for each of the detected data communication paths, the one or more routing nodes in that data communication path have a provisional data width sufficient to handle the data traffic requirement associated with that communication path; using the computer, performing one or more iterations of modifying the integrated circuit topology by:


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