Integrated circuit design
US10628626B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 25, 2018 |
| Grant date | Apr 21, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 25, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2115/08
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of integrated circuit design comprises: using a computer, detecting data communication paths and associated data traffic requirements between a set of data handling nodes in an integrated circuit layout, the data handling nodes acting as routing nodes or either source nodes or sink nodes for a given data communication path, each source node and each sink node having a respective provisional data width, each data communication path having at least one routing node between the source node and the sink node; using the computer, assigning a provisional data width to each routing node so that, for each of the detected data communication paths, the one or more routing nodes in that data communication path have a provisional data width sufficient to handle the data traffic requirement associated with that communication path; using the computer, performing one or more iterations of modifying the integrated circuit topology by:
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