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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:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peivand Tehrani, Mountain View, CA (US);

Rachid Helaihel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Hushrav Mogal, Mountain View, CA (US);

Song Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/30 (2020.01); G06F 30/3312 (2020.01); G06F 30/337 (2020.01); G06F 30/3315 (2020.01); G06F 119/12 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/3312 (2020.01); G06F 30/337 (2020.01); G06F 30/3315 (2020.01); G06F 2119/12 (2020.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and apparatus that takes timing information associated with a plurality of inputs to a cell, such as an AND-gate, within an integrated circuit (IC) design, store the timing information in a timing information register (TIR) associated with an index identifying the source of the timing information and track the source of the timing information for a predetermined number of cells through the index. The timing information in the TIRs is merged upon the index indicating that the timing information has been tracked through a predetermined number of cells.


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