Patents by Inventor Tom Sze

Tom Sze 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).

  • Patent number: 7191423
    Abstract: A method and apparatus folds a circuit having a plurality of transistors. The folding includes: (a) determining a number of folds to realize a desired layout of the circuit based on a netlist of the circuit, a folded circuit having a number of fingers corresponding to the number of folds; (b) creating a single-finger layout for the circuit, the single-finger layout including a respective smaller transistor for each of the original transistors, each of the smaller transistors having a size which is an original size of the corresponding original transistor divided by the number of the fingers, the smaller transistors in the single-finger layout having an arrangement the same as an original arrangement of the original transistors in the circuit; and (c) tiling the single-finger layout for the number of folds such that each single-finger layout abuts an adjacent single-finger layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Tom Sze