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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2013
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Arthur Nieuwoudt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jiyoun Kim, Suwon, KR;
Mathew Koshy, San Mateo, CA (US);
Baribrata Biswas, San Jose, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to provide a capacitance to a design an integrated circuit is described. In one embodiment, the method receive a layout of the integrated circuit and applying canonical hierarchical models to the layout, wherein the canonical hierarchical models include a first type canonical model to capture a first capacitance of a device having a plurality of first conductors and a second type canonical model to capture a second capacitance between at least a portion of the device and one or more second conductors of the integrated circuit. The method further includes determining a capacitance for the layout based on the applying.