Context-Based Integrated-Circuit Model for Efficient Electrical Rule Checking (ERC)

    公开(公告)号:US20220350948A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17246735

    申请日:2021-05-03

    Abstract: A method for checking electrical rules in a design of a circuit including transistors connected by nodes, includes defining a hierarchical database including (i) a root representing the circuit, and (ii) instances of context-cells representing design entities and including node-ports that connect the design entities. Electrical properties of the node-ports are propagated from the root through the node-ports to at least a portion of the context-cells. The electrical properties, which were propagated from the root, are propagated from one or more of the context-cells to one or more peer context-cells. An electrical rule violation in at least one of the context-cells is identified based on the propagated electrical properties.

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