ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,194, issued on July 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Dynamic clock tree planning using feedtiming cost" was invented by Vivek Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Prashant Gupta (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device identifies a first clock tree topology for a circuit design, the first clock tree topology having a threshold feedthrough count and a first timing solution. The processing device further identifies one or more additional clock tree topologies for the circuit design, each of the one or more additional clock tree topologies having a different respective feedthrough count tha...