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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
Douglas W. Kemerer, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Daniel N. Maynard, Craftsbury Common, VT (US);
Gustavo E. Tellez, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Lijiang L. Wang, South Burlington, VT (US);
Peter S. Wissell, Cambridge, VT (US);
Douglas W. Kemerer, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Daniel N. Maynard, Craftsbury Common, VT (US);
Gustavo E. Tellez, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Lijiang L. Wang, South Burlington, VT (US);
Peter S. Wissell, Cambridge, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and a system for improving manufacturing productivity of an integrated circuit. The method including: (a) generating a set of physical design rules, (b) assigning a rule scoring equation to each physical design rule of the set of physical design rules; (c) checking a physical design of the integrated circuit for deviations from each design rule; (d) computing a score for each physical design rule, using the corresponding rule scoring equation assigned to each physical design rule, for which one or more deviations were found in step (c); and (e) computing a productivity score for the integrated circuit design based on the scores computed in step (d).