Integrated circuit, integrated circuit design device and integrated circuit design method
AssigneeFujitsu Semiconductor Limited
InventorKenichi USHIYAMA
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Abstract
The disclosed integrated circuit includes a first and a second power supply wirings, a flip-flop circuit, and a switch element. The first and the second power supply wirings are connected to the common power supplies. The flip-flop circuit is required to hold the stored data even when the voltage supply from the power supplies to the integrated circuit is stopped. The flip-flop circuit is connected to the first power supply wiring. The switch element is a transistor, for example, and switches whether or not the voltage is supplied from the power supplies. The switch element is provided on the second power supply wiring.
Claims4
An integrated circuit comprising:
- a first and a second power supply wirings connected to common power supplies;
- a flip-flop circuit connected to the first power supply wiring;
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- a switch element which is provided on the second power supply wiring and which switches whether or not to supply voltage from the power supplies.
An integrated circuit design device comprising:
- an arrangement area calculating unit which calculates an arrangement area where flip-flop circuits are arranged, based on a number of the flip-flop circuits to be arranged on a substrate and a size of the flip-flop circuits;
- a power supply wiring design unit which performs a design of arranging first power supply wirings to which the flip-flop circuits are connected and second power supply wirings different from the first power supply wirings on the substrate based on the calculated arrangement area, connecting the first power supply wirings and the second power supply wirings to common power supplies, and providing switch elements on the second power supply wirings;
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- a flip-flop circuit arrangement design unit which performs a design of arranging the flip-flop circuits on the substrate along the first power supply wirings.
An integrated circuit design method executed by a computer, comprising:
- an arrangement area calculating process which calculates an arrangement area where flip-flop circuits are arranged, based on a number of the flip-flop circuits to be arranged on a substrate and a size of the flip-flop circuits;
- a power supply wiring design process which performs a design of arranging first power supply wirings to which the flip-flop circuits are connected and second power supply wirings different from the first power supply wirings on the substrate based on the calculated arrangement area, connecting the first power supply wirings and the second power supply wirings to common power supplies, and providing switch elements on the second power supply wirings;
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- a flip-flop circuit arrangement design process which performs a design of arranging the flip-flop circuits on the substrate along the first power supply wirings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.