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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:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ruth Patricia Jackson, Cambridge, GB;

William Robert Reece, Over, GB;

Thomas Andrew Newton, Great Cambourne, GB;

Zhuo Li, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/396 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 119/12 (2020.01); G06F 117/04 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/396 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 2117/04 (2020.01); G06F 2119/12 (2020.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments provide for clock network generation for a circuit design using a negative-edge integrated clock gate (ICG). According to some embodiments, a clock network with one or more negative-edge ICGs is generated, after a topology of the clock network is defined, by applying a positive-edge ICG-to-negative-edge ICG transform to one or more nodes of the clock network that comprise a positive-edge ICG. Additionally, according to some embodiments, a clock network is generated bottom-up (from the clock sinks to the root clock signal source) using one or more negative-edge ICGs.


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