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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sudhakar Bobba, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tyler Thorp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
A method that preferentially shields a signal to increase decoupling capacitance is provided. The signal is preferentially shielded based on a probability of the signal being at a specific value. Because the shield may also be used to form the power and ground grid, a balanced number of power versus ground lines is desired. A method for inverting the signal to balance the number of power versus ground lines is provided. Further, a method to increase system performance by increasing implicit decoupling capacitance is provided.