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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Bhaskar Bharath, Cary, NC (US);
William D. Cox, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Inventors:
Bhaskar Bharath, Cary, NC (US);
William D. Cox, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
ViASIC, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Logic cells in an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) emulating standard gate sizing by duplicating elements within a single standard gate where logical high-drive gates are synthesized and converted to parallel elements as a post-process. The drive characteristics of the logical gates are retained during the conversion to the physical gate equivalents in the standard cell architecture. The logic cells in the device may include, for example, at least two two-input multiplexers.