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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2007
Applicants:
Xiaowei Zhu, Plano, TX (US);
Robert C. Baumann, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Xiaowei Zhu, Plano, TX (US);
Robert C. Baumann, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H03K 19/003 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides, in one aspect, a method of designing an integrated circuit. In this particular aspect, the method comprises reducing soft error risk in an integrated circuit by locating a structure, relative to a node of the integrated circuit to reduce a linear energy transfer associated with a sub-atomic particle, into the node, such that the linear energy transfer does not exceed a threshold value associated with the integrated circuit.