Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and systems to estimate power network noise
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Application No.: US15697206Application Date: 2017-09-06
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Publication No.: US10467375B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Hui Yu Lee , Hao-Tien Kan
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Duane Morris LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
A method includes providing a symbolic power distribution network (PDN) map for a PDN of an circuit design including at least a first mesh that includes a plurality of map nodes; modeling at least one parasitic component that is provided on a branch of the symbolic PDN map and a pair of current sources that are provided at two respective map nodes of the symbolic PDN map; providing a matrix equation based on an interrelated conduction behavior among the parasitic component and the pair of current sources, wherein the matrix equation includes a current source term representing the pair of current sources and an unknown variable term representing a voltage level of at least a map node of the symbolic PDN map; and based on the matrix equation, expanding the unknown variable term in a frequency-domain as a sum of plural mathematical components while keeping the current source term intact.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180165407A1 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ESTIMATE POWER NETWORK NOISE Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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