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Abstract

A method for adding fine grain tuning circuitry to an integrated circuit design is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes providing a design elaborated to have representations of generic logic components and interconnections between the generic logic components, automatically selecting those of the generic logic components which are in critical timing paths, and amending the design to add the fine grain tuning circuitry automatically to the selected generic logic components in the elaborated design for use in maintaining the critical timing paths during operation of the integrated circuit. By adding the circuitry at this lower level of design while it is still generic, before the synthesis stage, the additions can be made more quickly and with less disruption to the design process.

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