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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Raj Kumar Gajavelly, Warangal, IN;

Ashutosh Misra, Bangalore, IN;

Pradeep Kumar Nalla, Bangalore, IN;

Rahul M. Rao, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/54 (2006.01); G11C 7/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/54 (2013.01); G11C 7/10 (2013.01); G11C 7/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes configuring an integrated circuit comprising one or more registers to provide a free running clock in the integrated circuit, simulating N clock cycles in the circuit to provide performance results for one or more registers in the circuit, wherein N is a selected number of staging levels, selecting one of the one or more registers, comparing the performance results for the selected register to performance results for each of the remaining registers to provide one or more equivalent delay candidate registers, and verifying each of the one or more equivalent delay candidate registers to provide one or more confirmed equivalent delay registers. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.


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