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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Applicants:
Barry David Turner, Jr., Leesport, PA (US);
Cristian Eugen Golovanov, Allentown, PA (US);
Henry Shiu-wen Sheng, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Barry David Turner, Jr., Leesport, PA (US);
Cristian Eugen Golovanov, Allentown, PA (US);
Henry Shiu-Wen Sheng, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method comprising placing elements in a layout, performing clock tree synthesis, and performing routing. The method further comprising, in parallel with one of the clock tree synthesis or the routing, performing a footprint based optimization, substituting a footprint equivalent element in a path based on a timing slack of the path.