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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Minsik Cho, Austin, TX (US);
Ruchir Puri, Baldwin PLace, NY (US);
Haoxing Ren, Austin, TX (US);
Hua Xiang, Ossining, NY (US);
Matthew M. Ziegler, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
Minsik Cho, Austin, TX (US);
Ruchir Puri, Baldwin PLace, NY (US);
Haoxing Ren, Austin, TX (US);
Hua Xiang, Ossining, NY (US);
Matthew M. Ziegler, Sleepy Hollow, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Latches and local-clock-buffers are automatically placed during integrated circuit physical synthesis. Prior to physically laying out the datapath, locations are assigned for the latches based on a logical representation of the datapath and on the fixed placements of pins. The computed latch locations optimize the datapath according to some predetermined criteria. Local-clock-buffers are also preplaced together with the latches further improving datapath performance.