Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Synopsys, Inc.

Nassda Corporation

An-Chang Deng

Henry Horng-Fei Jyu

John Yanjiang Shu

Wei Michael Tian

Yujia Li

Xiaohai Wu

Roland Ruehl

Hongzhou Liu

Walter J Ghijsen

Jushan Xie

Michael Tian

Xiaodong Zhang

Andrei Tcherniaev

An-Jui Shey

Walter Chan

Iouri Feinberg

Tao Hu

Che-Cheng Lin

Jeh-Fu Tuan

Various techniques implement an electronic design with hybrid analysis techniques. An activity map is identified or generated for an electronic design. The electronic design is reduced into a reduced electronic design at least by applying a plurality of reduction processes to different portions of the electronic design based in part or in whole upon the activity map. Transient behaviors of the electronic design may be determined or predicted at least by performing one or more transient analyses on a representation of the electronic design with a simulation start point based in part or in whole upon the activity map. The electronic design may then be implemented for manufacturing at least by modifying or correcting the electronic design based at least in part upon the transient behaviors.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an electronic design with hybrid analysis techniques

Various techniques implement an electronic design with electrical analyzes with compensation circuit components. A power pin of a power net may be identified in an electronic design. The electronic design may be reduced into a reduced electronic design at least by applying one or more circuit reduction techniques to at least a portion of the electronic design. At least one load device of a plurality of load devices in the reduced electronic design may be transformed into a transformed load device. One or more design closure tasks may be performed on the electronic design using at least the reduced electronic design and the transformed load device.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an electronic design with electrical analyses with compensation circuit components

A system, method, and computer program product for automatically approximating conventional Monte Carlo statistical device model evaluation for circuit simulation with drastic speed improvements, while preserving significant accuracy. Embodiments enable quick inspection of the effects of process mismatch variations on single devices and even large circuits compared to standard computationally prohibitive Monte Carlo analysis. Statistical device model variation is calculated as if all such variation is due to changes in threshold voltage, even though other physical phenomena are known to contribute. Threshold voltage variation is modeled as a function of statistical variation, device size, and working bias condition. Circuit simulation is faster when the full internal device model parameter set is not rebuilt for every Monte Carlo analysis iteration. Embodiments are compatible with both conventional SPICE and newer Fast SPICE simulations. Circuit designers may capture design sensitivity to manufacture process changes more easily with simplified statistical models.

Fast monte carlo statistical analysis using threshold voltage modeling

A system, method, and computer program product is disclosed for performing electrical analysis of a circuit design. A voltage-based approach is described for performing two-stage transient EM-IR drop analysis of an electronic design. A two-stage approach is performed in some embodiments, in which the first stage operates by calculating the voltage at certain interface nodes. In the second stage, simulation is performed to simulate the circuit to concurrently obtain the current at the interface nodes. In some embodiments, multiple adjacent devices as identified as interface devices for purposes of the analysis. One situation where it may be useful to analyze a larger portion of the circuitry in this way where the analysis is being performed on a netlist having a power gate.

Method and system for performing fast electrical analysis and simulation of an electronic design for power gates

A method for calculating leakage current associated with an integrated circuit, includes selecting a sampling point at which an input signal for the integrated circuit is in a quiescent state and determining the leakage current associated with the integrated circuit using the selected sampling point.

Circuit simulation methodology to calculate leakage current during any mode of circuit operation

A system, method, and computer program product is disclosed for performing electrical analysis of a circuit design. A voltage-based approach is described for performing two-stage transient EM-IR drop analysis of an electronic design. A two-stage approach is performed in some embodiments, in which the first stage operates by calculating the voltage at certain interface nodes. In the second stage, simulation is performed to simulate the circuit to concurrently obtain the current at the interface nodes.

Method and system for performing voltage-based fast electrical analysis and simulation of an electronic design

A method and system for simulating a circuit design that includes analog and/or digital circuitry uses a hybrid system of static analysis and dynamic simulation. Once the user's circuit is read in and partitioned into stages, the input vectors are applied. A hybrid vector is used to represent a number of possible signal states, for example, a logic 0 or logic 1, as well as a number of possible signal transitions, for example, a rising signal or a falling signal. The possible combinations of states are enumerated and the network in the stage is solved for all possible combinations. The results from the network solutions for the different combinations are recomposed into the hybrid notation, which is then applied to the next stage.

Hybrid system of static analysis and dynamic simulation for circuit design

Methods and apparatus for generating a hierarchical representation of a circuit include obtaining a netlist corresponding to the circuit, the circuit including a plurality of subcircuits. A hierarchical representation of the circuit is then generated from the netlist, the hierarchical representation including the plurality of subcircuits arranged among a plurality of levels of the hierarchical representation. Each one of the plurality of subcircuits has an associated subcircuit definition. In addition, each of a plurality of subsets of the subcircuits share a same subcircuit definition, where memory storage for the same subcircuit definition is shared by the subcircuits in each of the subsets. Moreover, each one of the plurality of subcircuits has a dynamic voltage state. Selected ones of the subcircuits in each of the plurality of subsets share a same dynamic voltage state, where memory storage for the same dynamic voltage state is shared by the subcircuits in each of the selected ones of the plurality of subsets. Once generated, the hierarchical representation may be used during simulation of the circuit to reduce the number of computations required.

Transistor level circuit simulator using hierarchical data

A method for minimizing signal delay and power consumption is provided. Through combined power simulation and delay analysis, iterative transistor resizing is performed based on a variety of factors including relative delay of associated circuit paths, nodal switching activities and association of transistors in channel-connected sets.

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