US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Nov. 25 for "Circuit design modification based on timing tradeoff" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,811, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuit design modification based on timing tradeoff" was invented by Jordan Moxon (Mountain View, Calif.), Kwangsoo Han (Austin, Texas) and Zi Wang (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for modifying a circuit design based on timing tradeoff, which can be part of an electronic design automation (EDA) system. For instance, some embodiments use a return on investment (ROI) concept to determine one or more thresholds for how much area or power of a circuit design should be available for use (e.g., sacrificed) in order t...