Patents by Inventor Frederic G. Mailhot

Frederic G. Mailhot has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for estimating internal power consumption of an electronic circuit represented as netlist
    Patent number: 6345379
    Abstract: This is a method of quickly computing the power dissipated by a digital circuit using information available at the gate library level. It estimates the short-circuit power by modeling the energy dissipated by the cell per input transition as a function of the transition time or edge rate, and multiplying that value by the number of transitions per second for that input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Adel Khouja, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Frederic G. Mailhot, Stephen F. Meier
  • Method and apparatus for estimating internal power consumption of an electronic circuit represented as netlist
    Patent number: 6075932
    Abstract: This is a method of quickly computing the power dissipated by a digital circuit using information available at the gate library level. It estimates the short-circuit power by modeling the energy dissipated by the cell per input transition as a function of the transition time or edge rate, and multiplying that value by the number of transitions per second for that input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Adel Khouja, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Frederic G. Mailhot, Stephen F. Meier
  • Method and apparatus for estimating internal power consumption of an electronic circuit represented as netlist
    Patent number: 5696694
    Abstract: This is a method of quickly computing the power dissipated by a digital circuit using information available at the gate library level. It estimates the short-circuit power by modeling the energy dissipated by the cell per input transition as a function of the transition time or edge rate, and multiplying that value by the number of transitions per second for that input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Adel Khouja, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Frederic G. Mailhot, Stephen F. Meier
  • Method for electronic memory management during estimation of average power consumption of an electronic circuit
    Patent number: 5682320
    Abstract: This is a method of quickly computing the power dissipated by a digital circuit using information available at the gate library level. It estimates the short-circuit power by modeling the energy dissipated by the cell per input transition as a function of the transition time or edge rate, and multiplying that value by the number of transitions per second for that input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Adel Khouja, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Frederic G. Mailhot, Stephen F. Meier
  • Method for estimating power consumption of a cyclic sequential electronic circuit
    Patent number: 5668732
    Abstract: This is a method of quickly computing the power dissipated by a digital circuit using information available at the gate library level. It estimates the short-circuit power by modeling the energy dissipated by the cell per input transition as a function of the transition time or edge rate, and multiplying that value by the number of transitions per second for that input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Adel Khouja, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Frederic G. Mailhot, Stephen F. Meier