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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:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Kutzschebauch, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Leon Stok, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for maintaining regularity in a netlist during logic synthesis. The method determines a global regularity for the netlist. The method determines a group of elements in the netlist having similar regularity signatures. Further, the method applies a transform to the group of elements.