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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2010
Amir H. Mottaez, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mahesh A. Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);
Amir H. Mottaez, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mahesh A. Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the present invention provide techniques and systems for performing aggressive and dynamic scenario reduction during different phases of optimization. Specifically, essential scenarios at gates and timing end-points can be identified and then used during the dynamic scenario reduction process. In some embodiments, margin values associated with various constraints can be used to determine the set of essential scenarios to account for constrained objects that are near critical in addition to the constrained objects that are the worst violators. In some embodiments, at any point during the optimization process, only the set of essential scenarios are kept active, thereby substantially reducing runtime and memory requirements without compromising on the quality of results.