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US 2003/0126570 A1Published application
Systems and methods for realizing integrated circuits
OwnerTan Du, James Lee Conner +1inventors
InventorsTan Du, James Lee Conner, James Albert Holmes
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for realizing a selected semiconductor device design using a virtual IC to model the design and simulate characterization and testing for further development of the design prior to the fabrication of actual semiconductor devices. According to the disclosed embodiments of the invention, a common platform may be used for design and simulation phases of IC development.
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A method for realizing an IC design comprising the steps of:
- describing an IC design using a transistor level netlist;
- obtaining a standard step response for the IC design;
- modeling the IC using the standard step response;
- and
- using the model to replace transistor level circuitry without change to the transistor level netlist of the IC design.
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A system for realizing an IC design comprising:
- virtual IC means for simulating characterization and test of the IC design;
- and
- means for producing IC devices using the IC design.
A method for implementing an IC design comprising the steps of:
- describing an IC design;
- obtaining a standard step response for the IC design;
- modeling the IC using the standard step response;
- using the model to replace transistor level circuitry to simulate the IC design;
- and
- fabricating an IC using the design.
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