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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007

Filed:

May. 20, 2005
Applicants:

Ian Gebbie, Edinburgh, GB;

Ian Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;

Zsolt Haag, Glasgow, GB;

Keith Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;

Inventors:

Ian Gebbie, Edinburgh, GB;

Ian Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;

Zsolt Haag, Glasgow, GB;

Keith Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;

Assignee:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 25/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, mechanism, and system for determining an effective resistance for a network of resistors, irrespective of the number of terminals is provided. An aspect of an approach relates to the reduction of any network of resistors to a single resistance value. Another aspect of an approach relates to the application of a power loss calculation to determine the effective resistance. Yet another aspect of an approach relates to the integration of the method/mechanism with an analog simulator.


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