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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Sabyasachi Das, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jean-charles Giomi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sabyasachi Das, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jean-Charles Giomi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, an integrated circuit (IC) design tool is provided that has a sum-of-products (SOP) synthesizer. The SOP synthesizer receives expected arrival times of signals including partial product terms of each bit-vector of a SOP functional block, a comparison gate delay, and a register-transfer-level (RTL) netlist in order to synthesize a gate-level netlist of the SOP functional block. The SOP synthesizer includes software modules to synthesize a partial products generator, a partial product reduction tree, and an adder. The synthesis of the partial product reduction tree is responsive to a comparison gate delay and the expected arrival times of the partial product terms in each bit vector.