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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
May. 29, 1998
Jingkun Fang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hirokazu Yonezawa, Hyogo, JP;
Lifeng Wu, Fremont, CA (US);
Yoshiyuki Kawakami, Osaka, JP;
Nobufusa Iwanishi, Osaka, JP;
Alvin I-Hsien Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Norio Koike, Kyoto, JP;
Ping Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Chune-Sin Yeh, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhihong Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An approach for simulating hot carrier effects in an integrated circuit (IC) at the circuit level includes generating a hot carrier library of delay data for each cell in the IC, using the hot carrier library data to generate a set of scaled timing data for the IC and using the scaled timing data with a IC performance simulator to simulate the IC operation. The scaled timing data is based upon the cell delay data and time-based switching activity of each cell in the IC.