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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2002
Barry J Rubin, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Erik J Breiland, Colchester, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A technique for simplifying a structure so that subsequent electrical analysis can be more efficiently performed. The technique includes facility to modify the existing shapes in the structure so that they do not overlap, to determine the allowed movement of each edge of each shape in the structure, to apply a set of factors to each movement that determines how advantageous the movement is with respect to the number of unknowns and the change in geometry and/or electrical parameters of the structure, and to choose and then make the movement associated with the highest factor. The factors are unity based so that the desirability of the move is given by the product of all the factors. The technique includes facility to iterate, calculating the factors and making the movement associated with the greatest factor, until the factor falls below a given threshold. The resulting structure will be similar in electrical characteristics to the original structure, yet require fewer unknowns to analyze.