International Business Machines Corporation

Cam V Endicott

Jason D Hibbeler

Fook-Luen Heng

Robert J Allen

Kevin W McCullen

Robert F Walker

Xin Yuan

Rani Narayan

A method, system and program product for migrating an integrated circuit (IC) design from a source technology without radical design restrictions (RDR) to a target technology with RDR, are disclosed. The invention implements a minimum layout perturbation approach that addresses the RDR requirements. The invention also solves the problem of inserting dummy shapes where required, and extending the lengths of the critical shapes and/or the dummy shapes to meet 'edge coverage' requirements.

Technology migration for integrated circuits with radical design restrictions

A method, system and program product for migrating an integrated circuit (IC) design from a source technology without radical design restrictions (RDR) to a target technology with RDR, are disclosed. Also, a method, system and program product for migrating an integrated circuit design from a source technology without RDR to a target technology with RDR in which space may be reserved for late insertion of a feature and in which migration first occurs in a primary compaction direction having less tolerant ground rules.

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Cam V Endicott