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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:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasutaka Tsukamoto, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
716 18 ; 716-2 ; 703 15 ;
Abstract
An LSI design aiding apparatus includes an operating-part net list generation unit for generating an operating-part net list from a net list of a logical circuit, the net list including information relating to a plurality of logical elements in the logical circuit and information relating to connections involving the plurality of logical elements, and the operating-part net list describing an operating part of the logical circuit which is in operation during a predetermined logical operation, so as to perform an estimation of current consumption, synthesis of the logical circuit adapted for low power consumption, and generation of layout data adapted for low power consumption.