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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Miles F. Mccoo, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Bin, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Ran Levy, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Ziv Frizus, Pardes Hana, IL;
Miles F. Mccoo, Portland, OR (US);
Michael Bin, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Ran Levy, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Ziv Frizus, Pardes Hana, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for analyzing and/or designing integrated circuits using virtual transparent cells disclosed. Some embodiments comprise calculating model values for virtual transparent cells or elements of an integrated circuit design varying a transparency variable in modeling equations, and allowing replacement of the cell with a wire based upon the calculations. Varying the value of the transparency value for the calculations may allow the virtual transparent cells to be continuously modeled between a wire and a conventional version of the cell. Some embodiments may comprise a cell library with one or more modeling formulas for one or more virtual transparent cells and a response module to calculate different model values of the modeling formulas.