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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2011
Guofan Jiang, Shanghai, CN;
Yi Fan Lin, Shanghai, CN;
Yang Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Hao Yang, Shanghai, CN;
Guofan Jiang, Shanghai, CN;
Yi Fan Lin, Shanghai, CN;
Yang Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Hao Yang, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for constructing a clock tree for an integrated circuit design is disclosed, the method comprising: extracting the path delays between the sequential devices in a placed netlist by performing timing analysis on the placed netlist; and constructing a clock tree for driving the sequential devices according to the path delays between the sequential devices so as to make the sum of the products of the timing delay between any two sequential devices and a clock tree branch weight of the two sequential devices minimum, wherein the clock tree branch weight of the two sequential devices is positively correlated with the number of clock tree levels from the branch point of the clock tree relative to the two sequential devices to the two sequential devices.