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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2006
Martin Betz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lokesh Johri, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Theodore R. Lundquist, Milpitas, CA (US);
Tamal Basu, New Delhi, IN;
Saurabh Gupta, Noida, IN;
Jagadish Narayana Gade, New Delhi, IN;
Martin Betz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lokesh Johri, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajesh Jain, San Jose, CA (US);
Theodore R. Lundquist, Milpitas, CA (US);
Tamal Basu, New Delhi, IN;
Saurabh Gupta, Noida, IN;
Jagadish Narayana Gade, New Delhi, IN;
DCG Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for defining a circuit operation, such as a charged particle beam operation to perform a circuit edit and define a probe point. Circuit operation definition is performed in a front-end environment with access to integrated circuit computer aided design tools providing logic level and layout level information concerning the integrated circuit. The front-end environment incorporates circuit operation optimization methods to identify optimal locations for a circuit operation. A back-end environment, such as a charged particle tool computing platform, is adapted to receive one or more files, which may include a truncated layout file with circuit operation location information, for use in further defining a circuit operation and/or performing the circuit operation.