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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Kimiyoshi Usami, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Naoyuki Kawabe, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Masahiro Kanazawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Masayuki Koizumi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hidemasa Zama, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Toshiyuki Furusawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, , JP;
Abstract
An automatic circuit generation methods and apparatus ( ) provide a desired circuit performance by reducing a leakage current during both a standby state and an active state, where cells having only High-Vth and Mt cells having both High-Vth transistors and Low-Vth translators are optimally mixed in a logical circuit. It is thereby possible to suppress efficiently the leakage current, in a design stage, generated according to miniaturization of LSI layout design and also lowering a supply voltage to the LSI.