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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Paul D. Kartschoke, Williston, VT (US);
Thomas G. Mitchell, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Norman J. Rohrer, Underhill, VT (US);
Ronald D. Rose, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Inventors:
Paul D. Kartschoke, Williston, VT (US);
Thomas G. Mitchell, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Norman J. Rohrer, Underhill, VT (US);
Ronald D. Rose, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is disclosed for preventing circuit failures due to gate oxide leakage, and is used to efficiently check many nets of a circuit on a chip or within a macro to find logical fails due to gate oxide leakage using DC calculations, wherein the gate leakage is treated as a noise source for a static noise analysis of the circuit.