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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2002
Thomas W. Chen, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of optimizing speed and predicted power of integrated circuit designs includes creating a machine representation representing devices of the integrated circuit design, where for each device in a path of the integrated circuit, the representation includes device size information and device type information. The device type information includes selection between at least one fast-but-leaky type and at least one slow-but-not-leaky type. A global optimization is then performed, wherein substitutions of both device type and device size are performed on the machine representation in each iteration. Substituted representations are evaluated for speed and power consumption.