Converged large block and structured synthesis for high performance microprocessor designs

US8271920B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Minsik Cho · Austin, US
• Victor N. Kravets · New York, US
• Smita Krishnaswamy · New York, US
• Dorothy Kucar · White Plains, US
• Jagannathan Narasimhan · Millwood, US
• Ruchir Puri · Peekskill, US
• Haifeng Qian · White Plains, US
• Haoxing Ren · Austin, US
• Chin Ngai Sze · Austin, US
• Louise H. Trevillyan · Katonah, US
• Hua Xiang · Pleasanton, US
• Matthew M. Ziegler · Sleepy Hollow, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 18, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 23, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F30/39
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments include a computer implemented method for large block and structured synthesis, the method including determining initial design data from starting points for a synthesis flow, receiving user-directed structuring is incorporated into the synthesis flow, applying logical synthesis on the initial design data, applying a physical design on the initial design data, determining whether circuit design parameters have been met and in response to circuit design parameters not being met, adjusting the circuit design parameters.