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Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2020
Applicants:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Tsmc Nanjing Company, Limited, Nanjing, CN;

Inventors:

Sandeep Kumar Goel, Dublin, CA (US);

Yun-Han Lee, Baoshan Township, TW;

Ankita Patidar, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/323 (2020.01); G06F 30/3323 (2020.01); G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01); G03F 1/70 (2012.01); G06F 119/12 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/323 (2020.01); G03F 1/70 (2013.01); G06F 30/3323 (2020.01); G06F 30/392 (2020.01); G06F 30/394 (2020.01); G06F 2119/12 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method (of reducing errors in a migration a first netlist to a second netlist, the first and second netlists representing corresponding first and second implementations of a circuit design under corresponding first and second semiconductor process technology (SPT) nodes, at least the second netlist being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium), the method including: inspecting a timing constraint list for addition candidates, the timing constraint list corresponding to an initial netlist which represents the second implementation; relative to a logic equivalence check (LEC) context, increasing a number of comparison points based on the addition candidates, resulting in first version of the second netlist; performing a LEC between the first netlist and the first version of the second netlist, thereby identifying migration errors; and revising the first version of the second netlist to reduce the migration errors, thereby resulting in a second version of the second netlist.


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