# US 2014/0157219 A1 · Support apparatus, design support method, and computer-readable recording medium

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- Number: US 2014/0157219 A1
- Document ID: US20140157219A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 14/037,483
- Filed: 2013-09-26
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Earliest claimed: 2012-12-05
- Assignees: Fujitsu Limited
- Applicants: Fujitsu Limited
- Inventors: YOICHIRO ISHIKAWA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140157219A1

## CPC

- G06F 30/398: Design verification or optimisation, e.g. using design rule check [DRC], layout versus schematics [LVS] or finite element methods [FEM] (optical proximity correction [OPC] design processes G03F1/36)
- G06F 30/33: Design verification, e.g. functional simulation or model checking
- G06F 2119/06: Power analysis or power optimisation
- G06F 2119/10: Noise analysis or noise optimisation
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A design support apparatus calculates a crosstalk noise value when a power line does not run parallel, for each of a plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus calculates a coefficient Fshield that becomes larger with decrease in the area of the power line included in an area between two signal lines based on a relative positional relationship between the two signal lines and the power line in a section, for each of the plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus corrects the crosstalk noise value corresponding to a section, using the coefficient Fshield corresponding to the section, for each of the plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus calculates a total of the corrected crosstalk noise values corresponding respectively to the plurality of sections as a crosstalk noise value between the two signal lines.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A design support apparatus, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising:
when a power line runs parallel between two signal lines in a circuit, partitioning a direction in which the two signal lines extend into a plurality of sections based on a position of the power line running parallel;
calculating a crosstalk noise value when the power line does not run parallel, for each of the plurality of partitions;
calculating a coefficient that becomes larger with decrease in an area of the power line included in an area between the two signal lines based on a relative positional relationship between the two signal lines and the power line in the section, for each of the plurality of sections;
correcting the crosstalk noise value corresponding to the section, using the coefficient corresponding to the section, for each of the plurality of sections; and
calculating a total of the crosstalk noise values corrected and corresponding respectively to the plurality of sections, as a crosstalk noise value between the two signal lines.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The design support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case where the two signal lines and the power line are projected onto a predetermined plane, when out of two projection areas of the two signal lines onto the predetermined plane, an entire area of one of the shooting areas is included in a projection area of the power line onto the predetermined plane, the calculating the coefficient includes calculating the coefficient that becomes larger with decrease in a rate of the projection area, included in the other shooting area, of the power line onto the predetermined plane, for each of the plurality of sections.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The design support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the calculating the coefficient includes calculating a maximum value of the coefficient as the coefficient for each of the plurality of sections, when the other shooting area does not include the projection area of the power line onto the predetermined plane.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The design support apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the calculating the coefficient includes calculating a minimum value of the coefficient as the coefficient for each of the plurality of sections, when the entire area of the other shooting area includes the projection area of the power line onto the predetermined plane.

### Claim 5

A design support method executed by a computer, the design support method comprising:
when a power line runs parallel between two signal lines in a circuit, partitioning a direction in which the two signal lines extend into a plurality of sections based on a position of the power line running parallel;
calculating a crosstalk noise value when the power line does not run parallel, for each of the plurality of sections;
calculating a coefficient that becomes larger with decrease in an area of the power line included in an area between the two signal lines based on a relative positional relationship between the two signal lines and the power line in the section, for each of the plurality of sections;
correcting the crosstalk noise value corresponding to the section, using the coefficient corresponding to the section, for each of the plurality of sections; and
calculating a total of the corrected crosstalk noise values corresponding respectively to the plurality of sections as a crosstalk noise value between the two signal lines.

### Claim 6

A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a design support program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:
when a power line runs parallel between two signal lines in a circuit, partitioning a direction in which the two signal lines extend into a plurality of sections based on a position of the power line running parallel;
calculating a crosstalk noise value when the power line does not run parallel, for each of the plurality of sections;
calculating a coefficient that becomes larger with decrease in an area of the power line included in an area between the two signal lines based on a relative positional relationship between the two signal lines and the power line in the section, for each of the plurality of sections;
correcting the crosstalk noise value corresponding to the section, using the coefficient corresponding to the section, for each of the plurality of sections; and
calculating a total of the corrected crosstalk noise values corresponding respectively to the plurality of sections as a crosstalk noise value between the two signal lines.