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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2010
Applicants:
Soroush Abbaspour, Ossining, NY (US);
Peter Feldmann, New York, NY (US);
Peter A. Habitz, Hinesburg, VT (US);
Safar Hatami, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventors:
Soroush Abbaspour, Ossining, NY (US);
Peter Feldmann, New York, NY (US);
Peter A. Habitz, Hinesburg, VT (US);
Safar Hatami, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for optimizing a circuit includes at least a first branch and a second branch includes defining an objective function using a shape of waveforms measured at a timing point in each branch, and optimizing the objective function to minimize a variance of clock skew of the first branch and the second branch across different process voltage temperature values.