US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Dec. 9 for "Adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron placement" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,732, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Adiabatic quantum-flux-parametron placement" was invented by Troy W. Barbee III (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Uzzal Kumar Bhaumik (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cells in a superconducting electronics (SCE) netlist may be levelized. The SCE may use multiple clock phases, and each level in the levelized SCE netlist may be associated with a clock phase. Buffers may be inserted in the SCE netlist so that output ports of the SCE netlist are associated with the same clock phase. A floorplan may be created for the SCE netlist. A placed SCE netlist may be gener...