US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 22 for "Balancing buffer insertion for clock H-trees" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,573, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Balancing buffer insertion for clock H-trees" was invented by Yi-Xiao Ding (Austin, Texas), Zhuo Li (Austin, Texas) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include system, methods, and software for creating an H-tree routing layout. In one example, a method includes an H-tree routing layout that has a plurality of vertical traces and horizontal traces connecting a clock source to a plurality of clock sinks. The method positions a plurality of candidate buffers in the H-tree rout...