摘要:
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for electronic circuit design is disclosed. The method includes analyzing a netlist of a subcircuit to determine one or more input pins and one or more output pins; forming an arc graph of the subcircuit including one or more timing arcs between the one or more input pins and the one or more output pins; and reducing the number of transistors to perturb to perform a sensitivity analysis for within die process variations over the one or more timing arcs to reduce the number of simulations to characterize the subcircuit.
摘要:
A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for performing crosstalk analysis using first-order parameterized analysis modeling. The approach can be used to factor in the effect of process variations within the definition of timing windows. This approach allows one to bypass the simplistic assumptions related to best-case/worst-case analysis using timing windows, and provide a realistic picture of the impact of timing windows on noise analysis. The timing windows can be viewed in terms of the individual process parameter. The process parameters could be real process parameters, or virtual/computed components based on the actual process parameters. The process parameters can be used to compute overlap of timing windows for performing noise analysis.
摘要:
A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for performing crosstalk analysis using first-order parameterized analysis modeling. The approach can be used to factor in the effect of process variations within the definition of timing windows. This approach allows one to bypass the simplistic assumptions related to best-case/worst-case analysis using timing windows, and provide a realistic picture of the impact of timing windows on noise analysis. The timing windows can be viewed in terms of the individual process parameter. The process parameters could be real process parameters, or virtual/computed components based on the actual process parameters. The process parameters can be used to compute overlap of timing windows for performing noise analysis.
摘要:
Techniques are presented for determining effects of process variations on the leakage of an integrated circuit having multiple devices. The operation of the circuit is simulated using a first set of values for the process parameters for the devices and is also simulated with some of the process parameter values varied. For the simulation with the varied values, the circuit is split up into distinct components (such as channeled coupled components, CCCs), where each component has one or more devices, and a process parameters value in a device in each of two or more of these components is varied.
摘要:
Techniques are presented for determining effects of process variations on the leakage of an integrated circuit having multiple devices. The operation of the circuit is simulated using a first set of values for the process parameters for the devices and is also simulated with some of the process parameter values varied. For the simulation with the varied values, the circuit is split up into distinct components (such as channeled coupled components, CCCs), where each component has one or more devices, and a process parameters value in a device in each of two or more of these components is varied.
摘要:
Display of measurements in a graphical design on a computer system. In one aspect, shapes are displayed in an image, and a definition of a defined area of the image is received. One or more measurements are determined for one or more of the shapes displayed within the predefined area, the one or more measurements determined automatically without a user designating endpoints for the measurements. The one or more measurements are displayed as being associated with the one or more shapes.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for reporting design rule violations of an integrated circuit design includes collecting data from a design rule checker module, processing the data, and displaying design rule violations onto the layout. The display of the design rule violations may be interactive by including hypertext links to specifications, text bubbles with violation explanations, measurements, highlighting areas of the layout corresponding to a particular rule, and providing hierarchically expandable nodes for constraint violations in a browser.
摘要:
Disclosed encompasses method, system, computer program product for implementing interactive checking of constraints. Various embodiments bridge schematic design environment and layout environment with a binder mapping process and utilize connectivity information from the schematic design to identify constraint violations early in the physical design stage. The method identifies or creates a layout and identifies or generates an object for a modification process. The method may take snapshot(s) of the design database or may use one or more logs for restoring the design database. The method then identifies or creates scratch pad(s) and performs modification process on the object to generate a change. The method uses scratch pad(s) and trigger(s) to perform constraint checking during the modification process to provide interactive feedback in response to the modification process before committing the change to the persistent database.
摘要:
Disclosed are methods and systems for implementing constraint and connectivity aware physical designs. The method or system provides a connectivity-aware environment to implement electronic designs. For example, the method interactively determines whether an electronic design complies with various constraints by using connectivity information in a nearly real-time manner while the electronic design is being created in some embodiments. The method or system uses the connectivity information provided by a connectivity engine or specified by designers to present feedback to a user as to whether a newly created object or a newly modified object complies or violates certain relevant constraints in an interactive manner or in nearly real-time without having to perform such constraints checking in batch mode. The method further enables one to implement electronic designs by using connectivity information without performing extraction on layouts or rebuilding nets.