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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Palkesh Jain, Bangalore, IN;
Gracieli Posser, Porto Alegre, BR;
Ricardo Reis, Porto Alegre, BR;
Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Vivek Mishra, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Palkesh Jain, Bangalore, IN;
Gracieli Posser, Porto Alegre, BR;
Ricardo Reis, Porto Alegre, BR;
Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A circuit design system includes a simulator that determines an average charging current provided by each current insertion point in a cell and an average charging current along a path in the cell between a reference pin position and a candidate pin position. A candidate pin placement tester updates the average charging current along the path by adding the average charging current of each insertion point to the average charging current along the path to produce an updated average charging current along the path and uses the updated average charging current along the path to determine a time to failure for the cell.