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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vassilios Gerousis, San Jose, CA (US);

Shuo Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);

Stefanus Mantik, San Jose, CA (US);

Yuan Huang, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jing Chen, Fremont, CA (US);

Jianmin Li, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5077 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufactures for implementing correct-by-construction physical designs with multiple-patterning-awareness by identifying a first set of grids for a layer based at least in part upon characteristics of other layer(s), identifying a set of tracks for the layer to implement the physical design for the layer, and implementing a shape in the physical design by at least terminating an end of the shape at a grid of the identified first set of grids. The end of the shape may be extended or contracted from its as-design location to the grid. The physical design thus implemented is correct-by-construction and is free of violations of one or more directional design rules.


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