Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Manufacturing a clock distribution network in an integrated circuit
- Patent Title (中): 在集成电路中制造时钟分配网络
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Application No.: US11372235Application Date: 2006-03-09
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Publication No.: US07831945B2Publication Date: 2010-11-09
- Inventor: Paul Barnes
- Applicant: Paul Barnes
- Applicant Address: GB Buckinghamshire
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Buckinghamshire
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Agent Lisa K. Jorgenson; James H. Morris
- Priority: EP05251496 20050311
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50 ; G06F9/45

Abstract:
A method of designing a clock distribution network in an integrated circuit, the method including: creating a clock distribution network with all cells having a maximum drive strength; supplying parameters of the clock distribution network to a timing analysis tool; in the timing analysis tool, analyzing the timing of the clock distribution network in an iterative process including manipulating the drive strength of at least one cell in the clock distribution network and assessing whether there is an improvement in the timing, wherein the iterative process ceases where there is no improvement in the timing; and outputting a list of cells for which the drive strength was changed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060248486A1 Manufacturing a clock distribution network in an integrated circuit Public/Granted day:2006-11-02
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