Design Optimization for Circuit Migration

摘要

An embodiment of the present invention is a computer program product for providing an adjusted electronic representation of an integrated circuit layout. The computer program product has a medium with a computer program embodied thereon. Further, the computer program comprises computer program code for providing full node cells from a full node netlist, computer program code for scaling the full node cells to provide shrink node cells, computer program code for providing a timing performance of the full node cells and the shrink node cells, computer program code for comparing the timing performance of the full node cells to the timing performance of the shrink node cells, and computer program code for providing a first netlist.

主权项

1. A computer program product for providing an adjusted electronic representation of an integrated circuit layout, the computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program which when executed by a processor provides the adjusted electronic representation of the integrated circuit layout, the computer program comprising:
computer program code for generating a timing performance of a path in a first netlist; computer program code for identifying a first cell in the path that violates a timing performance parameter; computer program code for generating a plurality of derivative cells from a subsequent cell that is in the path after the first cell, wherein each derivative cell comprises a variation of the subsequent cell, the variation including at least one of an additional component in each derivative cell that is not in the subsequent cell or a feature of a component in each derivative cell that is a modification of a corresponding component in the subsequent cell; and computer program code for, in response to the identifying the first cell, replacing the subsequent cell with at least one of the plurality of derivative cells to generate a first modified netlist; and computer program code for generating a final netlist based on the first modified netlist.