US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 15 for "Rail power density aware standard cell placement for integrated circuits" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,376, issued on April 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Rail power density aware standard cell placement for integrated circuits" was invented by Shaurakar Das (San Jose, Calif.), Haoxing Ren (Austin, Texas), Santosh Santosh (Los Gatos, Calif.), SeshasaiJyothi Kolli (San Jose, Calif.), Muhammad Arif Mirza (Austin, Texas) and Sreedhar Pratty (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To ensure proper operation (e.g., speed and/or function) of standard cells fabricated within an integrated circuit a minimum potential difference between the high and low power supply rails needs to be maintained. IR drop refers...