Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for advanced macro clock skewing
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Application No.: US17184184Application Date: 2021-02-24
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Publication No.: US11494545B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Ming-Chieh Tsai , Shao-Yu Wang
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Duane Morris LLP
- Main IPC: G06F30/396
- IPC: G06F30/396 ; G06F30/392 ; G06F1/10

Abstract:
A method and system for generating a clock distribution circuit for each macro circuit in an ASIC design are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for generating a clock distribution circuit receives the ASIC design specified in a hardware description language (HDL), places each macro circuit in allocated locations on a semiconductor substrate, generates a custom clock skew information for each macro circuit based on a macro clock delay model, generates a clock distribution circuit for each macro circuit placed on the semiconductor substrate based on the generated custom clock skew information, modifies the clock distribution circuit if the generated clock distribution circuit does not meet timing requirements of the ASIC design, and outputs a physical layout of the ASIC design for manufacturing under a semiconductor fabrication process.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220269847A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED MACRO CLOCK SKEWING Public/Granted day:2022-08-25
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