Siemens Industry Software Gmbh

Xiaoyuan Qi

Wu-Tung Cheng

Manish Sharma

Gaurav Veda

Fan Jiang

This application discloses a computing system to identify suspected defects in a manufactured integrated circuit, which correspond to electrical failures detected by a test applied to the manufactured integrated circuit. The computing system can utilize the suspected defects in the manufactured integrated circuit to cluster features in a physical layout design describing the manufactured integrated circuit. Each cluster of the features corresponds to a candidate for a physical root cause of the suspected defects in the manufactured integrated circuit. The computing system can detect a physical root cause of the electrical failures in the manufactured integrated circuit based on the clusters of the features. A physical failure analysis process includes an inspection of the manufactured integrated circuit to confirm the physical root cause of the electrical failures in the manufactured integrated circuit corresponds to a systemic manufacturing fault in the manufactured integrated circuit.

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