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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Himanshu Sharma, Mountain View, CA (US);
Byungwook Kim, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Virender Kashyap, Noida, IN;
Abhishek Khandelwal, Noida, IN;
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for constructing a design characterized by a double patterning layer is presented. The method includes receiving the design in a memory of the computer when the computer is invoked to construct the design. The method further includes generating, using the computer, a multitude of fill shapes along a multitude of tracks associated with a multitude of net shapes. The multitude of fill shapes and the multitude of net shapes are decomposable into two colors in accordance with a spacing constraint of the double patterning layer.