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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2017
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining an electromigration effect in an integrated circuit model with multiple parallel processors is provided. The method includes receiving, in a partition scheduler, a circuit netlist divided into smaller partition netlists in a partition scheduler and scheduling a computational thread including tasks associated with a first partition netlist, and verifying that at least one task in the first computational thread has been executed by at least one computer selected from a network of computers. The method also includes releasing the computer and resetting a status of the computer, converting a result from the at least one task to an input file for another computational thread associated with a second partition netlist, the result including an induced current in the circuit component of the first partition netlist. The method includes determining electromigration effects on the circuit component in the partition netlists based on the induced current.