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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2020
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Tsmc China Company, Limited, Shanghai, CN;
Ya-Min Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
TSMC CHINA COMPANY, LIMITED, Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A method of designing an integrated circuit (IC) device includes specifying a set of criteria corresponding to an IC manufacturing process, using a processor to generate a design rule by applying a design rule instruction to the set of criteria, generating a design rule manual (DRM), the DRM being an electronic file comprising the design rule, using the design rule from the DRM to perform a design rule check (DRC) on a layout of at least a portion of the IC device, and, based on verifying the layout by performing the DRC, storing an IC layout diagram comprising the layout on a non-transitory computer-readable medium.