PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["326", "093000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuits with sequential logic circuitry is provided. The sequential logic circuitry may including latching circuits that receive clock signals from on-chip or off-chip clock sources. The clock signals may exhibit clock skew that is native to the integrated circuit. The natively existing clock skew can be leverage to perform time borrowing to help optimize circuit performance. The desired clock skew can be achieved by intelligent placement of the clock sources and deliberate routing of the clock signals from the clock sources to respective types of clock distribution networks on the integrated circuit.

Claim (Index 2):
An article of manufacture comprising one or more tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:\n receive a circuit design specification; and perform placement or routing of circuit elements from the circuit design specification, wherein the placement or routing of circuit elements enables time borrowing between a first stage of circuit elements that has a first delay and a second stage of circuit elements that has a second delay different from the first at least in part by:\n providing a first latch; \n providing a first clock signal to control the first latch, wherein the first clock signal has a first frequency; \n providing the first stage immediately after the first latch; \n providing a second latch immediately after the first stage; \n providing a second clock signal to control the second latch, wherein the second clock signal has the first frequency and comprises at least one clock edge that that has an offset from a corresponding clock edge of the first clock signal; and \n providing the second stage immediately after the second latch; \n wherein the offset enables time borrowing of the first stage from the second stage or of the second stage from the first stage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 326.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15464067', '14639735', '12060795', '13347626', '11731125']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6901588940193967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.542094273277408
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6753524319451978
- Mean Citation Score: 304.804712
- Max Citation Score: 404.64197
- Similarity Product: 387.58897978717033

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test