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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jianfeng Luo, Foster City, CA (US);
Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system or computer usable program product for preventing odd cycles caused by design modifications to a double patterning layout including utilizing a processor to identify a set of double patterning cycles in the layout for storage in a memory; receiving a set of design modifications to the layout; utilizing the processor to identify from the set of double patterning cycles a subset of double patterning cycles affected by the set of design modifications; utilizing the processor to identify from the set of design modifications a subset of design modifications which may cause odd cycles in the subset of double patterning cycles; and providing a notification of the subset of design modifications.