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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2016
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Arthur B. Nieuwoudt, San Carlos, CA (US);
Claude Helmstetter, Saint Ismier, FR;
Arindam Chatterjee, Saratoga, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A parasitic-aware blockage structure is provided to replace a detailed blockage structure for use in connection with a capacitance extraction operation. The parasitic-aware blockage structure includes one or more parasitic-aware blockage polygons, each representing a plurality of polygons of the detailed blockage structure. The parasitic-aware blockage polygons can be formed by expanding and merging the polygons of the detailed blockage structure. Physical information is associated with each of the parasitic-aware blockage polygons, wherein the physical information defines physical characteristics of the polygons of the detailed blockage structure. Capacitance error information may also be associated with each of the parasitic-aware blockage polygons, specifying capacitive errors of the parasitic-aware blockage polygons with respect to the polygons of the detailed blockage structure.