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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2017
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Chin-Shen Lin, Taipei, TW;
Meng-Xiang Lee, Yunlin County, TW;
Kuo-Nan Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Chung-Hsing Wang, Hsinchu County, TW;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method performed by at least one processor includes: accessing a layout of an integrated circuit (IC), the layout comprising a resistor-capacitor (RC) netlist comprising a plurality of circuit nodes; identifying an RC network in the RC netlist; determining a characterization matrix corresponding to the RC network; updating the RC netlist by replacing the RC network with the characterization matrix; and calculating voltages and currents of the plurality of circuit nodes based on the updated RC netlist.