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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Chaitanya Ravindra Peddawad, Karnataka, IN;
Kerim Kalafala, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Alexander Joel Suess, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Hemlata Gupta, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Gregory Schaeffer, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
To increase the efficiency of electronic design automation, in a putative electronic logic circuit design, at least one transparent latch is identified as a candidate for slack stealing. An initial timing slack, available for stealing, and associated with the at least one transparent latch, is determined. Responsive to a determination that the initial timing slack available for stealing is insufficient, it is determined whether the initial timing slack available for stealing is on a feedback path. If so, responsive to determining that the initial timing slack available for stealing is on the feedback path, the initial timing slack available for stealing is replaced with a next worse slack.