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Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2007

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2005
Applicants:

Qian Cui, San Jose, CA (US);

Sandeep Bhutani, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qian Cui, San Jose, CA (US);

Sandeep Bhutani, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for accounting for negative bias temperature instability in a rise delay of a circuit design, the method comprising the steps of create a cell and net model library with original rise numbers, construct the circuit design from the cell and net models, for each cell and net in the circuit design, calculate an original rise delay, apply a negative bias temperature instability model to determine a parameter shift, determine a new rise number from the parameter shift, and calculate a new rise delay by original rise delay* (original rise number)/(new rise number).


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