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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Thomas R. Bednar, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Scott W. Gould, South Burlington, VT (US);
David E. Lackey, Jericho, VT (US);
Douglas W. Stout, Milton, VT (US);
Paul S. Zuchowski, Jericho, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and structure for designing an integrated circuit chip is disclosed. The method supplies a chip design, partitions elements of the chip design according to similarities in voltage requirements and timing of power states of the elements to create voltage islands, creates a floorplan of the voltage islands, assesses the floorplan, repeats the partitioning and the creating of the floorplan depending upon a result of the assessing process, and outputs a voltage island specification list.