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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2006
George H. Chang, Taipei, TW;
Yi-kan Cheng, Taipei, TW;
Chen-teng Fan, Beipu Township, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chen-lin Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Yung-chin Hou, Taipei, TW;
Chu-ping James Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
George H. Chang, Taipei, TW;
Yi-Kan Cheng, Taipei, TW;
Chen-Teng Fan, Beipu Township, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chen-Lin Yang, Hsinchu, TW;
Yung-Chin Hou, Taipei, TW;
Chu-Ping James Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Abstract
This invention discloses a method for sanity checking integrated circuit (IC) designs based on one or more predefined sub-circuits with at least one predefined checking criteria, the method comprising automatically reading one or more netlists, identifying one or more sub-circuits in the netlists isomorphic to at least one of predefined sub-circuits, identifying one or more device parameters for sanity checking the identified sub-circuits, and comparing the identified device parameters against the predefined checking criteria.