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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2015
Esilicon Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Prasad Subramaniam, New Providence, NJ (US);
Hao Nham, Millington, NJ (US);
Rakesh Chadha, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Ferran Martorell, Barcelona, ES;
eSilicon Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method for providing design point recommendations for an integrated circuit (IC) design is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an IC design along with a reference PPA (power, performance, area) metric at a reference design point, and a target PPA metric. The method also comprises estimating trial PPA metrics for the IC design at multiple design points, wherein estimating trial PPA metric at each design point includes accessing a PPA database containing PPA metrics for multiple test components, determining scale factors from the reference design point to the trial design point for test components equivalent to components of the IC design, and applying the scale factors to the reference PPA metric to determine the trial PPA metric for the trial design point. The method further comprises recommending a trial design point based on the estimated trial PPA metric and the received target PPA metric.