METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CLOCK GATING TO SAVE POWER

Patent №

US 7,930,673

Granted

2011-04-19

Filed 2008

Owner

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.

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Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12128554

A power optimization method of deriving gated circuitry in a synthesized netlist of an integrated circuit (IC) design is provided. A block in the synthesized netlist is identified as an idle candidate block. Sub-blocks on the chip are clustered into a cluster. For the cluster, a clock gating structure optimized for power savings is determined, based on the idle candidate block. One or more inflexible clock gates are inserted in the netlist according to the clock gate structure.

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AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.04
Planning0.03
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MAGMA DESIGN AUTOMATION, INC.

assignment · 212550781

SYNOPSYS, INC.

assignment · 282690807

Assignors

JIANG, YUNJIAN (WILLIAM), SRINIVASAN, ARVIND, BANERJEE, JOY, LI, YINGHUA, DAS, PARTHA, CHAUDHURI, SAMIT

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