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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:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Benjamin Mbouombouo, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 1/100 ; G01R 3/128 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for estimating gate leakage of an integrated circuit design having a plurality of transistors. The method and apparatus simulate an operating state of the integrated circuit design and estimate the gate leakage as a function of the states of the transistors in response to the simulated operating state.