US Patent Issued to XILINX on Aug. 11 for "Retiming sequential elements having initital states" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,410, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Retiming sequential elements having initital states" was invented by Chaithanya Dudha (San Jose, Calif.), Ruibing Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shangzhi Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Nithin Kumar Guggilla (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retiming a circuit design can include determining whether or not an initial value specified for a candidate register can be removed based on an input logic cone to the candidate register and an output logic cone from the candidate register. The candidate register is a register in a critical path in the circuit design. T...