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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
May. 01, 2007
John R. Jones, Shelburne, VT (US);
Steven G. Lovejoy, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Henry W. Trombley, Starksboro, VT (US);
Josef S. Watts, South Burlington, VT (US);
John R. Jones, Shelburne, VT (US);
Steven G. Lovejoy, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Henry W. Trombley, Starksboro, VT (US);
Josef S. Watts, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for preserving measured temperature and geometric behavior of a hardware model while adjusting the model to match specified target values. In one embodiment, the method includes measuring a characteristic of an integrated circuit (IC) chip at a plurality of temperatures; modeling to form a hardware model for the characteristic versus temperature based on the measuring; obtaining a known first target value of the characteristic for at least one temperature in the hardware model; determining a plurality of second target values for the characteristic for a corresponding plurality of temperatures in the hardware model; and modeling to form a target model for the characteristic based on the first known target value and the plurality of second target values.