Synopsys, Inc.

University of California

Himanshu Sharma

Michelle Khine

Byungwook Kim

Sophia Lin

Virender Kashyap

Jolie McLane Nokes

Abhishek Khandelwal

Provided are methods of preparing a sample for detection by placing the sample on a shrinkable scaffold and then shrinking the scaffold. An exemplary shrinkable scaffold is a thermoplastic substrate.

Detection of low concentration biological agents

A method for reducing voltage hot spots in a power grid for a circuit design is implemented on a computer system and includes the following steps. The computer system (e.g., an EDA tool) accesses the circuit design. The circuit design includes a power grid that distributes power throughout the circuit design. The computer system identifies spots in the power grid with excessive voltage drops. These will be referred to as hot spots. The power grid is augmented by adding local conductors at the hot spots. These local conductors provide additional electrical paths through the power grid at the hot spots. This in turn reduces the voltage drops at the hot spots.

Voltage drop assisted power-grid augmentation

A computer-implemented method for constructing a design characterized by a double patterning layer is presented. The method includes receiving the design in a memory of the computer when the computer is invoked to construct the design. The method further includes generating, using the computer, a multitude of fill shapes along a multitude of tracks associated with a multitude of net shapes. The multitude of fill shapes and the multitude of net shapes are decomposable into two colors in accordance with a spacing constraint of the double patterning layer.

Constructing fill shapes for double-patterning technology

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Himanshu Sharma