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- Patent Title: Methods for analyzing design rules
- Patent Title (中): 分析设计规则的方法
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Application No.: US13369938Application Date: 2012-02-09
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Publication No.: US08589844B2Publication Date: 2013-11-19
- Inventor: Swamy Muddu , Abde Ali Kagalwalla , Luigi Capodieci
- Applicant: Swamy Muddu , Abde Ali Kagalwalla , Luigi Capodieci
- Applicant Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
- Current Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KY Grand Cayman
- Agency: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for analyzing impact of design rules on a layout. One exemplary method involves generating variants of the layout for different values for the rule, determining values of a device metric for each of the layout variants, and identifying the relationship between rule and the device metric based on the values for the device metric corresponding to the different values for the rule. In one embodiment, the layout variants are generated by using the different values for the rule to perform layout compaction on an initial layout generated in accordance with an initial value for the rule.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130212548A1 METHODS FOR ANALYZING DESIGN RULES Public/Granted day:2013-08-15
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