US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 8 for "Route-based cell merging" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,957, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Route-based cell merging" was invented by Edward Brown (Cranleigh, Great Britain), William Robert Reece (Over, Great Britain), Thomas Andrew Newton (Great Cambourne, Great Britain) and Natarajan Viswanathan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing route-based cell merging for a clock tree. The methods and systems access, from memory, a circuit design comprising a clock tree that interconnects a clock source to a plurality of clock sinks through a plurality of components. The methods and systems generate a S...