Duplicate circuit section identification and processing for optical proximity correction (OPC) processes in electronic design automation (EDA) applications

A system comprising:

• a circuit design access engine configured to access a circuit design;
• and
• a duplicate section processing engine configured to:
• partition the circuit design into multiple circuit sections;
• determine, from among the multiple circuit sections, an identical section set based on a duplicate criterion, wherein circuit sections of the identical section set satisfy the duplicate criterion with respect to one another;
• perform an optical proximity correction (OPC) processing operation on a selected circuit section of the identical section set;
• and
• apply an OPC result of the performed OPC processing operation for other circuit sections of the identical section set without performing the OPC processing operation on the other circuit sections of the identical section set.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to:

• access a circuit design;
• partition the circuit design into multiple circuit sections;
• determine, from among the multiple circuit sections, an identical section set based on a duplicate criterion, wherein circuit sections of the identical section set satisfy the duplicate criterion with respect to one another;
• perform an electronic design automation (EDA) processing operation on a selected circuit section of the identical section set;
• and
• apply an EDA result of the performed EDA processing operation for other circuit sections of the identical section set without performing the EDA processing operation on the other circuit sections of the identical section set.