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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
James P. Pequignot, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Tariq Rahman, Burlington, VT (US);
Jeffrey H. Sloan, Burlington, VT (US);
Douglas W. Stout, Milton, VT (US);
Steven H. Voldman, South Burlington, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 3/22 ;
Abstract
A method for automatically generating a custom ESD network for an integrated circuit is provided. When a user provides chip size and chip capacitance for the integrated circuit, components for the customized ESD network are automatically selected based on the user-provided chip size and chip capacitance and the adequacy of the ESD behavior of an ESD network employing the selected components is evaluated.