ELECTROMIGRATION EVALUATION METHODOLOGY WITH CONSIDERATION OF THERMAL AND SIGNAL EFFECTS

A system for evaluating a heat sensitive structure of an integrated circuit design including a memory for retrieving and storing integrated circuit design layout data, thermal data, process data, and one or more operational parameters, a processor capable of accessing the memory and identifying a ta...

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Main Authors TSENG, Hsien Yu, LIU, Sheng-Feng
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 17.10.2024
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
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Summary:A system for evaluating a heat sensitive structure of an integrated circuit design including a memory for retrieving and storing integrated circuit design layout data, thermal data, process data, and one or more operational parameters, a processor capable of accessing the memory and identifying a target region having a nominal temperature Tnom, a plurality of heat generating structures and/or heat dissipating structures having corresponding impact areas that encompass a portion of the target region, calculating the temperature increases and/or decreases in the target region as a result of thermal coupling between the target region and the heat generating structures and/or heat dissipating structures, and conducting one or more parametric evaluations of the target region at an adjusted evaluation temperature TE after which a network interface transmits the result(s) of the parametric evaluation(s) for use in a design review.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202418754815