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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2004
Applicant:
Joseph S. Minacapelli, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph S. Minacapelli, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus to design a via pad of a via is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a vertex determination module configured to determine a vertex of the via pad based on a position of a trace that is connected to the via. The apparatus also includes a contour definition module configured to define an extended contour of the via pad based on the vertex. The extended contour is defined such that an electrical length design characteristic of the trace is substantially unchanged by the extended contour.