Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated circuit design method and associated non-transitory computer-readable medium
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Application No.: US15210052Application Date: 2016-07-14
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Publication No.: US09953122B2Publication Date: 2018-04-24
- Inventor: Yu-Jen Chang , Kuo-Nan Yang , Jui-Jung Hsu , Chih-Hung Wu , Chung-Hsing Wang
- Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
- Current Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: WPAT, P.C., Intellectual Property Attorneys
- Agent Anthony King
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
An integrated circuit (IC) design method is disclosed. The method includes: using a computer to perform synthesis upon a register transfer level (RTL) IC design to generate a gate level netlist; performing place and route (P&R) upon the gate level netlist to generate a layout; determining a sink current distribution information of the layout; and generating a voltage (IR) drop/electro-migration (EM) analysis result of the layout according to the sink current distribution information; wherein the layout includes a cell having a cell height that is N times higher than a single cell height, where N is an integer and greater than 1, and the cell corresponds to N power/ground (P/G) rail sets; wherein the sink current distribution information includes a proportion of a sink current flowing through each of the N power/ground (P/G) rail sets with respect to the cell when operated. Associated non-transitory computer-readable medium is also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180018410A1 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN METHOD AND ASSOCIATED NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2018-01-18
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