US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 23 for "Skewing level limited clock tree" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,501, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Skewing level limited clock tree" was invented by Andrew Mark Chapman (Milton, Great Britain), Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas) and Andrew Hall (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing post clock tree synthesis of a clock tree. The methods and systems access, from memory, a circuit design comprising a clock tree that interconnects a clock source to a plurality of clock sinks, each clock sink in the plurality of clock sinks having an associated target insertion delay adjustment, the clock ...