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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2006
Min Zhao, College Station, TX (US);
Rajendran V. Panda, Round Rock, TX (US);
Savithri Sundareswaran, Austin, TX (US);
Min Zhao, College Station, TX (US);
Rajendran V. Panda, Round Rock, TX (US);
Savithri Sundareswaran, Austin, TX (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A semiconductor power network decoupling capacitance (decap) budgeting problem is formulated to minimize the total decap to be added to the network subject to voltage constraints on the network nodes of a semiconductor circuit design. Voltage constraints on the decap to be added are taken into consideration such that the decap can be distributed throughout a hot spot region of the semiconductor circuit design and not be limited to placement at a single location in the circuit. Dynamic network voltages are at all times maintained greater than a user-specified threshold voltage level.