Patent 7500205 was granted and assigned to Synopsys on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is disclosed systems and processes for optimizing circuit descriptions by reducing clock skew, re-organizing and/or converting gated and generated clock circuits, and reconnecting clock nets and other related nets. A transformed circuit design may be produced from an initial circuit design and having a reduced number of secondary clocks and a reduced amount of clock skew.