Invention Grant
US08930864B2 Method of sharing and re-using timing models in a chip across multiple voltage domains
有权
在多个电压域中共享和重新使用芯片中的时序模型的方法
- Patent Title: Method of sharing and re-using timing models in a chip across multiple voltage domains
- Patent Title (中): 在多个电压域中共享和重新使用芯片中的时序模型的方法
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Application No.: US13633911Application Date: 2012-10-03
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Publication No.: US08930864B2Publication Date: 2015-01-06
- Inventor: Debjit Sinha , Eric J. Fluhr , Stephen G. Shuma , Natesan Venkateswaran , Chandramouli Visweswariah , Michael H. Wood , Vladimir Zolotov
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Ira D. Blecker; H. Daniel Schnurmann
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
A method and a system for timing analysis of a VLSI circuit or chip design considering manufacturing and environmental variations, where the design includes multiple instances of a gate or macro instantiated at more than one voltage domain by sharing and re-using abstracts. The timing analysis of the chip includes a macro abstract instantiated in a voltage domain different from the domain during abstract generation. Timing models are re-used across chip voltage domains or across chip designs. Moreover, a statistical timing analysis of a chip design takes into consideration the voltage domains wherein at least one timing abstract model generation time voltage domain condition differs from the macro instantiation domain in the chip. The invention further provides sharing and re-using the statistical timing models or abstracts.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140096100A1 METHOD OF SHARING AND RE-USING TIMING MODELS IN A CHIP ACROSS MULTIPLE VOLTAGE DOMAINS Public/Granted day:2014-04-03
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