Method and device for predicting reliability failure rate of semiconductor integrated circuit and method of manufacturing the semiconductor integrated circuit

Abstract

A method for predicting a failure rate of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes receiving a circuit netlist corresponding to circuit defining data, which defines a connection relation, input, output, size, type and operating temperature of each transistor of a plurality of transistors included in the semiconductor integrated circuit. Low-risk transistors having a low-failure probability among the plurality of transistors are detected and filtered out based on the circuit netlist. Failure rates are calculated of respective high-risk transistors other than the low-risk transistors among the plurality of transistors. A total failure rate of the semiconductor integrated circuit is calculated based on the failure rates of the respective high-risk transistors.