US Patent Issued to Synopsys on June 16 for "Preserving switching activity during integrated circuit optimization" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,361, issued on June 16, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Preserving switching activity during integrated circuit optimization" was invented by Kailash Pawar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An initial polarity associated with an element of an integrated circuit design is determined. Responsive to a determination that an optimization process associated with the integrated circuit design is completed, a current polarity associated with the element is determined. A determination is made that a signal is to be applied at the element based on activity data associated with the integrated circuit design. T...