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US07962883B2 Developing semiconductor circuit design with conditional flipflops to save power consumption
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开发具有条件触发器的半导体电路设计,以节省功耗
- Patent Title: Developing semiconductor circuit design with conditional flipflops to save power consumption
- Patent Title (中): 开发具有条件触发器的半导体电路设计,以节省功耗
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Application No.: US12195574Application Date: 2008-08-21
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Publication No.: US07962883B2Publication Date: 2011-06-14
- Inventor: Takeshi Kitahara , Tetsuaki Utsumi
- Applicant: Takeshi Kitahara , Tetsuaki Utsumi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Priority: JP2007-220864 20070828
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
This disclosure concerns a semiconductor circuit design method for designing a clock wiring structure supplying a clock to a flip-flop by using a computer. The semiconductor circuit design method comprises setting the flip-flop based on circuit information on a semiconductor integrated circuit; obtaining a control signal controlling the flip-flop; calculating a first evaluation value indicating a power consumption and a magnitude of a clock skew time when clock gating is applied to the flip-flop; setting a gated clock structure clock-gating the flip-flop when the first evaluation value is higher than a first threshold; calculating a second evaluation value indicating the power consumption and a magnitude of a cell area when a low power flip-flop lower in power consumption than the flip-flop is applied to the flip-flop; and replacing the flip-flop by the lower power flip-flop when the second evaluation value is higher than a second threshold.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090064070A1 SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-03-05
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