Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

John Yanjiang Shu

Richard John O'Donovan

Wei Michael Tian

An-Chang Deng

Xiaodong Zhang

Monica Goel

Claudia Ursula Roesch

Embodiments include herein are directed towards a method for electromigration analysis of a circuit design. Embodiments may include performing a first transient simulation of an electronic design using one or more electronic design tools. Embodiments may further include storing a level of current associated with one or more generic passive device tap points. Embodiments may also include identifying a resistor capacitor (RC) model for one or more generic passive devices using the one or more electronic design tools and performing a second transient simulation for the one or more generic passive devices. Embodiments may further include analyzing a current density obtained from the first and second transient simulation to obtain a single current density map.

System and method for dual model electromagnetic modeling in an electronic circuit design

Various embodiments implement an electronic design with one or more electrical analyses or simulations. Pre-layout and/or post-layout design data of an electronic design or a portion thereof may be identified at a physical design implementation module. A first stage analysis may be performed on the electronic design or the portion thereof at least by computing electrical characteristics with a reduced representation in the electronic design or the portion thereof. Electrical behavior of the electronic design or the portion thereof may be generated at least by performing a second stage analysis on the electronic design or the portion thereof with one or more adjusted electrical characteristics. The electronic design or the portion thereof may then be implemented based in part or in whole upon the one or more electrical analyses or simulations.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an electronic design using voltage-based electrical analyses and simulations with corrections

Various embodiments implement an electronic design with power gate analyses using time varying resistors. Design data of an electronic design or a portion thereof may be identified at an electronic design implementation module. First stage electrical characteristics may be generated at least by performing a first stage electrical analysis on a reduced representation of the electronic design or the portion thereof. Second stage electrical characteristics may further be generated at least by performing a second stage electrical analysis on a parasitic injected representation of the electronic design or the portion thereof with a time-varying model for the power gate. The electronic design or the portion thereof may then be further implemented based in part or in whole upon the one or more electrical analyses or simulations.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an electronic design with time varying resistors in power gating analysis

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 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.

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John Yanjiang Shu