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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:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2003
Applicants:
Erwin Behnen, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Jeffrey P. Soreff, Pougkeepsie, NY (US);
James D. Warnock, Somers, NY (US);
Dieter Wendel, Schoenaich, DE;
Inventors:
Erwin Behnen, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Jeffrey P. Soreff, Pougkeepsie, NY (US);
James D. Warnock, Somers, NY (US);
Dieter Wendel, Schoenaich, DE;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a first aspect, a method is provided that includes the steps of (1) receiving a circuit design having a plurality of latches; and (2) allowing one or more latches of the circuit design to be locally treated as exhibiting latch transparency during modeling of the timing behavior of the circuit design. Numerous other aspects are provided.