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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 14, 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 system for simulating reliability of a circuit design includes: a first memory device, arranged to store a technology file, wherein the circuit design comprises a plurality of circuit cells, and the first memory device further stores a plurality of first failure rates corresponding to a first circuit cell in the plurality of circuit cells; a first simulating device, coupled to the first memory device, for generating a first specific failure rate of the first circuit cell according to the plurality of first failure rates and the technology file; and an operating device, coupled to the first simulating device, for generating a total failure rate of the circuit design according to the first specific failure rate.