US Patent Issued to Synopsys on March 18 for "Diagnosis of inconsistent constraints in a power intent for an integrated circuit design" (California, Oregon, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,256, issued on March 18, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Diagnosis of inconsistent constraints in a power intent for an integrated circuit design" was invented by Maheshwar Chandrasekar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brian T. Selden (Hilo, Hawaii) and Makarand V. Patil (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power intent may be loaded on an integrated circuit (IC) design, where the power intent may be represented by a set of constraints. A logic network may be constructed based on the set of constraints and a rule check which is desired to be performed on the power intent. In response to a failure of the rule ch...