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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2012
Charles Jay Alpert, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Nicolas Kozhaya, Morrisville, NC (US);
Zhuo LI, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Joseph J Palumbo, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Haifeng Qian, White Plains, NY (US);
Phillip John Restle, Katonah, NY (US);
Chin Ngai Sze, Austin, TX (US);
Ying Zhou, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Jay Alpert, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Nicolas Kozhaya, Morrisville, NC (US);
Zhuo Li, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Joseph J Palumbo, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Haifeng Qian, White Plains, NY (US);
Phillip John Restle, Katonah, NY (US);
Chin Ngai Sze, Austin, TX (US);
Ying Zhou, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An electronic automation design tool with a sink locator unit creates clusters of loads from a plurality of loads within a sector of a clock network design based on balancing magnitudes of the loads among the clusters of loads and based on minimal delays of each of the clusters and respective ones of a plurality of sink locations in the sector of the clock network design. The tool determines centers of the clusters of loads, and sink locations corresponding to the centers of the clusters for connecting output terminal points of sector buffers are determined. Each of the sector buffers drive a clock signal to a corresponding one of the clusters of loads.