US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Early power estimation on a derived physical hierarchy in chip design" (Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,568, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Early power estimation on a derived physical hierarchy in chip design" was invented by Ali S. El-Zein (Austin, Texas), Robert James Shadowen (Austin, Texas), Gabor Bobok (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Edward Armayor McQuade (Granite Springs, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is described to allow an early power estimate where switching activity provided by a simulation of a logical hierarchy in a chip design is accomplished by mapping ports in the physical hierarchy to ports in a logical hierarchy after hierarchy manipulation has been ...