Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shozo Hirano

Kenji Shimazaki

Kazuhiro Sato

Masao Takahashi

Hiroyuki Tsujikawa

Takahiro Ichinomiya

Seijiro Kojima

An impedance of a power supply wire is calculated based on design data of a semiconductor integrated circuit, a frequency characteristic of the calculated impedance is obtained, and a design of the semiconductor integrated circuit is changed based on the obtained frequency characteristic. As the above-described impedance, an impedance between power supplies that are different in potential such as a power supply and a ground may be calculated, or an impedance between power supplies that are substantially the same in potential such as a power supply and an N-well power supply may be calculated. By a design modification, a wiring method, the number of pads, separation of power supplies, a type of package, a characteristic of an inductance element, a substrate structure, a distance between wires, a decoupling capacitance, a length of a wire, and a characteristic of a resistance element, for example, are changed.

Design method for semiconductor integrated circuit suppressing power supply noise

The resistance value of a supply line (Rline), the resistance value of a decoupling capacitor (Rcap), and the resistance value of a transistor (Rmos) are separately calculated from mask layout information of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The resistance value between external terminals (Ri) is calculated from the resistance value Rline, the resistance value Rcap, and the resistance value Rmos.

Method for estimating EMI in a semiconductor device

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Shozo Hirano