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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1995
Alexander Saldanha, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Patrick McGeer, Orinda, CA (US);
Luciano Lavagno, Berkeley, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for generating a low-power circuit from a Shannon graph having a plurality of primary inputs, a plurality of nodes including parent and child nodes, a first end-terminal, and a second end-terminal, each of the plurality of nodes having output edges associated therewith, includes the steps of: substituting the plurality of nodes and associated output edges with a plurality of cells, one cell for each node and output edge associated therewith, each cell including a plurality of elements; coupling a cell substituted for a parent node to cells substituted for child nodes of the parent node; and bypassing particular elements of child nodes having only one parent node.