Computer implemented methods and computing systems for designing integrated circuits by considering back-end-of-line

Abstract

Computer implemented methods of designing integrated circuits and computing systems are provided. A computer implemented method of designing an integrated circuit according to the inventive concepts may be performed by a processor and may include performing a placement and routing (P&R) operation for standard cells defining the integrated circuit, extracting characteristic values from a result of the P&R operation, generating a physical-aware annotation file by determining a plurality of representative characteristic values that respectively correspond to a plurality of groups based on the extracted characteristic values, and performing a physical-aware synthesis operation to generate a netlist from input data for the integrated circuit, based on the generated physical-aware annotation file.