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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
William C. Bakker, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
L. William Dewey, III, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Peter A. Habitz, Hinesburg, VT (US);
Judith H. McCullen, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Edward W. Seibert, Richmond, VT (US);
Michael J. Sullivan, Essex Junction, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and structure for performing parasitic extraction for a multi-fingered device comprising of establishing a maximum processing width of a finger of the device, dividing fingers of the device that exceed the maximum width into sub-fingers, determining whether ones of the fingers and the sub-fingers have similar characteristics, combining ones of the fingers and the sub-fingers that have similar characteristics into combined fingers, and extracting parasitic values from the fingers, the sub-fingers and the combined fingers.