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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Shaojie Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Yukit Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Pao-Po Hou, Saratoga, CA (US);
Derek C. Tao, Fremont, CA (US);
Annie-Li-Keow Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of designing a semiconductor circuit includes generating a model of the semiconductor circuit. The model includes a functional area corresponding to a first block of the semiconductor circuit, and a loading area corresponding to a second block of the semiconductor circuit, wherein the first block is connected to the second block by a signal line. The method further includes extracting, in the functional area, parasitic parameters of the signal line and a device of the first block. The method further includes extracting, in the loading area, parasitic parameters of the signal line, without extracting parasitic parameters of a device of the second block.