US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Jan. 27 for "Clock gate cloning based on clocked circuit element switching activity" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,850, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Clock gate cloning based on clocked circuit element switching activity" was invented by Amin Farshidi (Austin, Texas), Zhuo Li (Austin, Texas), Michael Alexander (Graham, Wash.) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for cloning a clock gate based on input/output switching activity of clocked circuit elements gated by the clock gate, where the cloning can be performed as part of a clock tree generation or optimization process performed by an electronic design automation (EDA) software....