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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Russell B. Segal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); G06F 2217/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for computing a timing effort metric are described. According to one definition, the computed timing effort metric indicates a level of difficulty of fixing a timing violation associated with a timing path between two circuit objects in a circuit design layout.