PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["326", "095000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses pertaining to hold-time compensation using free metal segments or other electrically-conductive segments of an IC are described. An integrated circuit (IC) having free segment hold-time compensation may include a monolithic semiconductor substrate which has a first device and a second device disposed thereon. In addition, the IC may include an electrical node electrically connecting the first and second devices. The electrical node may include one or more electrically-conductive elements that contribute to a total capacitance at the electrical node such that the total capacitance at the electrical node has a value that fulfills a hold-time requirement at the electrical node.

Claim (Index 16):
A method, comprising:\n generating, by a first sequential-logic device of an integrated circuit (IC), a digital signal having at least one logic transition; and conducting, by one or more delay elements disposed between the first sequential-logic device and a second sequential-logic device of the IC, the digital signal from the first sequential-logic device to the second sequential-logic device with a delay of a predetermined amount of time such that the at least one logic transition complies with a hold-time requirement at an input terminal of the second sequential-logic device when the digital signal arrives at the input terminal of the second sequential-logic device, wherein the one or more delay elements comprise a passive delay element comprising:\n an electrically-conductive primary wiring that carries the digital signal from the first sequential-logic device to the second sequential-logic device; and \n at least one electrically-conductive compensation stub extending from the primary wiring and terminated in one of one or more metal layers of the IC without connecting to an active device of the IC.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77419
- Patent Class: 326.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14582971', '10682351', '14583018', '14583007', '14582984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.638441446208409
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4593414832409766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6205314499116659
- Mean Citation Score: 140.10854999999998
- Max Citation Score: 141.82858000000004
- Similarity Product: 104.96841783026936

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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