Computer aided design method and apparatus for modeling and analyzing on-chip interconnect structures

A computer aided design (CAD) system. A template generation engine generates templates from interconnect configuration files. A field solver generates high frequency passive element relationships from the templates. A circuit builder generates circuit description files from device technology models...

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Main Authors Anand, Minakshisundaran B, Angyal, Matthew S, Deutsch, Alina, Elfadel, Ibrahim M, Kopcsay, Gerard V, Rubin, Barry J, Smith, Howard H
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.08.2006
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Summary:A computer aided design (CAD) system. A template generation engine generates templates from interconnect configuration files. A field solver generates high frequency passive element relationships from the templates. A circuit builder generates circuit description files from device technology models and from high frequency passive element relationships. Parameterized circuit description models may be generated for large range of sensitivity analyses. A simulator simulates circuit responses for transmission line models from the circuit description files. Interconnect configuration files may be generated by a geometry and material definition module that receives process description data from a designer.