Integrated Circuit Design with Logic Cells Associated with Dependent Operating Elements Arranged in a Widening Structure

One or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, responsive to execution by a processor, perform operations comprising:

• associating logic cells in a processing system into a plurality of groups, the logic cells in each of the plurality of groups being associated with one of a plurality of dependent operating elements that each depend on a base operating element;
• arranging the plurality of dependent operating elements in a widening structure at which the base operating element is at a proximal end of the widening structure and one or more levels of dependent operating elements are hierarchically arranged from the base operating element at the proximal end to a distal level of one or more operating elements at a distal end of the widening structure;
• and
• clustering each of the plurality of groups of logic cells around each of the plurality of dependent operating elements with which the logic cells in each of the plurality of groups is associated.

A system comprising:

• a base operating element;
• a plurality of dependent operating elements that each depend on the base operating element and are arranged in a widening structure with the base operating element at a proximal end of the widening structure and one or more levels of dependent operating elements hierarchically arranged from the base operating element at the proximal end to a distal level of one or more operating elements at a distal end of the widening structure;
• and
• a plurality of groups of logic cells, each of the groups of logic cells including a plurality of logic cells being associated with one of the plurality of dependent operating elements and clustered around the associated dependent operating element.