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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce Culbertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364488 ; 364491 ; 395500 ;
Abstract
A method, practiced in a CAD system, of automatically dividing a pipeline stage into two. A designer specifies a desired signal processing time for division of the stage. The CAD system automatically identifies circuit locations that meet the specified signal processing time and divides the stage at those points, providing new netlists for the new stages.