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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:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
John G McBride, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Jan Kok, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
To achieve the advantages and novel features, the present invention is generally directed to a system and method for identifying pass FETs from a netlist. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method identifies pass FETs from a netlist by identifying complementary pass FET circuit configurations at each node, identifying RAM pass FET circuit configurations at the node, and identifying single pass FET circuit configurations at the node. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, a system is provided for identifying pass FETs connected to a selected node of an integrated circuit. The system operates by evaluating a netlist at the node, and further includes a code segment for identifying complementary pass FET circuit configurations at the node, a code segment for identifying RAM pass FET circuit configurations at the node, and a code segment for identifying single pass FET circuit configurations at the node.