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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2010
Applicant:
Cristian Constantinescu, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventor:
Cristian Constantinescu, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for determining a predicted soft error rate (SER) for an integrated circuit device design includes calculating the SER based on a predicted amount of charge imparted by a one or more particles to the integrated circuit device based on the design. The SER is further based on a predicted sensitivity level of a region of the integrated circuit device to the charge imparted by the one or more particles, and can also be based on the energy spectrum of the particles.