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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
Applicants:
Stuart A. Taylor, San Jose, CA (US);
Victor MA, Fremont, CA (US);
Bharat Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit (IC) chip having repeaters for propagating signals along relatively long wires that extend between and among lower-level physical blocks of the IC chip, wherein the repeaters are implemented as clocked flip-flops (or 'repeater flops'). A method for automatically inserting and allocating such repeater flops during the logical and physical design of the IC chip is also provided.