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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2008
Magdy S. Abadir, Austin, TX (US);
Aseem Gupta, Austin, TX (US);
Kamal S. Khouri, Austin, TX (US);
Puneet Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Magdy S. Abadir, Austin, TX (US);
Aseem Gupta, Austin, TX (US);
Kamal S. Khouri, Austin, TX (US);
Puneet Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of designing a data processing device design includes determining thermal profile information to indicate a predicted operating temperature for a device instance in the design. The device instance is associated with a first library cell having a relatively high threshold voltage characteristic. A cost function value is determined for the device instance based on the thermal profile information and based on timing information for data paths associated with the device instance. Based on the cost function value, the library cell associated with the device instance can be changed to a cell having a higher threshold voltage characteristic.