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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Nathan C. Buck, Underhill, VT (US);
Brian M. Dreibelbis, Underhill, VT (US);
John P. Dubuque, Jericho, VT (US);
Eric A. Foreman, Fairfax, VT (US);
Peter A. Habitz, Hinesburg, VT (US);
Nathan C. Buck, Underhill, VT (US);
Brian M. Dreibelbis, Underhill, VT (US);
John P. Dubuque, Jericho, VT (US);
Eric A. Foreman, Fairfax, VT (US);
Peter A. Habitz, Hinesburg, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method performs statistical static timing analysis of a network that includes a phase-locked loop and a feedback path. The feedback path comprises a set of delays operatively connected from the output of the phase-locked loop back to the input of the phase-locked loop. One embodiment herein computes a statistical feedback path delay for the feedback path. The method can use a separate statistical parameter to represent random uncorrelated delay variation for each delay in the feedback path. The method also computes an output arrival time for the phase-locked loop based on the negative of the statistical feedback path delay.