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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2022
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Partha Das, Cupertino, CA (US);

Tao Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Min Pan, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/10 (2006.01); H03K 5/13 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/10 (2013.01); H03K 5/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of determining a clock tree for a circuit includes, in part, generating a multitude of symmetric clock configurations characterized by a multitude of columns and a multitude of rows. For each symmetric clock configuration, the method further includes, in part, selecting positions of a multitude of tap points defined by a multitude of end points of the multitude of rows, estimating a first cost from a tree root to each of the first multitude of tap points, estimating a second cost from the multitude of tap points to a multitude of clock sinks associated with the multitude of tap points, and determining the symmetric clock configuration cost in accordance with the first cost and the second cost.


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