US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Jan. 27 for "Performing time-efficient clock engineering change orders (ECO)" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,363, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Performing time-efficient clock engineering change orders (ECO)" was invented by Meng-Fan Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for obtaining timing adjustment values for clock points in a clock network are disclosed. In some embodiments, engineering change order (ECO) may be performed in a time- and resource-efficient manner by selecting candidate clock points from a plurality of clock points in the clock network, and performing enumerative and iterative tests on the selected candidate clock points to determine a combinatio...