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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Victor Moroz, Saratoga, CA (US);

Ibrahim Avci, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Shuqing Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Philippe Roussel, Linden-Lubbeek, BE;

Ivan Ciofi, Heverlee, BE;

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 30/33 (2020.01); G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 30/367 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 30/3312 (2020.01); H01L 29/06 (2006.01); H01L 23/50 (2006.01); G06F 111/10 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 30/33 (2020.01); G06F 30/3312 (2020.01); G06F 30/367 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 2111/10 (2020.01); H01L 23/50 (2013.01); H01L 29/0669 (2013.01);
Abstract

An integrated circuit design tool for modeling resistance of an interconnect specifies a structure of the interconnect in a data structure in memory in or accessible by the computer system using 3D coordinate system. For each of a plurality of volume elements in the specified structure, the tool specifies a location and one of first and second materials of the interconnect having specified resistivities, and for each volume element generates a model resistivity for the volume element as a function of resistivity of volume elements within a neighborhood of the volume element and a specified transition region length λ.


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