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- Patent Title: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing electronic circuit designs with electro-migration awareness
- Patent Title (中): 用于实现具有电迁移意识的电子电路设计的方法,系统和制造
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Application No.: US12982762Application Date: 2010-12-30
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Publication No.: US09330222B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: David White , Michael McSherry , Ed Fischer , Bruce Yanagida , Prakash Gopalakrishnan
- Applicant: David White , Michael McSherry , Ed Fischer , Bruce Yanagida , Prakash Gopalakrishnan
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Vista IP Law Group, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing electronic circuit designs with electro-migration awareness. Some embodiments perform schematic level simulation(s) to determine electrical characteristics, identifies physical parasitics of a layout component, determines the electrical or physical characteristics associated to electro-migration analysis on the component, and determines whether the component meets EM related constraint(s) while implementing the physical design of the electronic circuit in some embodiments. Some embodiments further determine adjustment(s) to the component or related data where the EM related constraints are not met and/or and present the adjustment(s) in the form of hints. Various data and information, such as currents in various forms or voltages, are passed between various schematic level tools and physical level tools.
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