Patent ID: 11947891
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the program instructions are executable by the processing element to run the optimization tool to:
detect the first type of first timing violation on a first group of signal paths connected to the local clock buffer;
determine the first metric for the first group of signal paths;
detect the second type of timing violation on a second group of signal paths connected to the local clock buffer;
determine the second metric for the second group of signal paths;
accumulate the first metric for the first group of signal paths to generate a first overall metric;
accumulate the second metric for the second group of signal paths to generate a second overall metric;
compare the first overall metric with the second overall metric; and
wherein the determination of whether to retain the generation of the first clock signal or to configure the local clock buffer to generate the second clock signal is further based on a result of the comparison of the first overall metric with the second overall metric.