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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Kit Lam Cheong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ping-chih Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weibin Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Louis Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Yiqun Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Kit Lam Cheong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ping-Chih Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weibin Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Louis Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Yiqun Ding, Shanghai, CN;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to performing early design for testing (DFT)-aware prototyping of a design. Unlike prior approaches, the improvement analyzes and considers the impact of test structures at a very early stage of the design process. This allows test structures to be considered and addressed in a more efficient iterative and incremental way, which reduces design cycle time and reduces costs.