US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 30 for "Restructuring algorithm for including user-specified clock instances in a post-CTS clock tree" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,489, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Restructuring algorithm for including user-specified clock instances in a post-CTS clock tree" was invented by Andrew Mark Chapman (Milton, Great Britain), Ruth Patricia Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock tree generated through clock tree synthesis (CTS) for an integrated circuit (IC) design is stored in memory. The IC design includes a post post-CTS clock tree that includes a plurality of clock nets. A request to add a user-specified clock instance to the post-CTS...