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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1999
Tetsuya Akimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Morihisa Hirata, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A design automation method is provided which reduces complication of design work resulting from individual verification of a plurality of objects to be verified, for example, electromigration and hot carrier effect. Limiting values are prepared individually for the objects to be verified while a combined limiting value is obtained by combining these limiting values. By the use of the combined limiting value, verification of reliability is performed for all the objects. Specifically, when applied to the electromigration and the hot carrier effect as the objects to be verified, verification can simultaneously be performed upon frequency limiting values for the electromigration and the hot carrier effect.