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- Patent Title: System and methods for analyzing and estimating susceptibility of circuits to radiation-induced single-event-effects
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Application No.: US16041165Application Date: 2018-07-20
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Publication No.: US10345374B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Michel D Sika
- Applicant: LUCID CIRCUIT, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Assignee: LUCID CIRCUIT, INC.
- Current Assignee: LUCID CIRCUIT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Monica
- Agent Shant Tchakerian
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50 ; G01R31/28

Abstract:
Systems and methods for semiconductor design evaluation. IC layout information of a circuit design is received, and the circuit design is decomposed into smaller circuit pieces. Each circuit piece has IC layout information and a netlist. For each circuit piece, a set of strike models is selected based on the layout information and the net-list of the circuit piece and received radiation environment information. Each strike model has circuit components with voltage values corresponding to a respective particle strike. For each selected strike model of a circuit piece: a radiation susceptibility metric is determined by comparing functional results of simulation of the of the strike model with functional results of simulation of the circuit piece. For each circuit piece, a radiation susceptibility metric is determined based on the radiation susceptibility metrics generated for each selected strike model of the circuit piece.
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