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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2021
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for driver resizing using a transition-based capacitance increase margin. An integrated circuit (IC) design stored in a database in memory is accessed. The IC design comprises a net comprising a set of driver cells. A capacitance increase margin for resizing an initial driver cell is determined based on a total capacitance of the net and transition time target associated with the initial driver cell. An alternative driver cell is selected from a library to resize the initial driver cell and is used to replace the initial driver cell in the net. The alternative driver is selected such that a pin capacitance of the alternative driver cell exceeds an initial pin capacitance corresponding to the initial driver cell by no more than the capacitance increase margin.