System and method for recovering from design errors in integrated circuits

A system for resolving at least one current design error in a current integrated circuit design, comprising:

• a historical design knowledge base having information relating to at least one prior design error in at least one prior integrated circuit design;
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• an inference engine for automatically inferring probabilistic relationships between attributes of the current integrated circuit design and attributes of the at least one prior design error to automatically infer at least one probabilistic solution to the at least one current design error, wherein the inference engine automatically infers at least one probabilistic solution to the at least one current design error;
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• an alert engine that automatically generates an alert when the inference engine automatically infers at least one probabilistic solution to the at least one current design error.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable modules for resolving at least one design error in an integrated circuit comprising:

• a dynamic historical design knowledge base comprised of information relating to at least one prior design error in at least one prior integrated circuit design;
• an inference processor that automatically infers probabilistic relationships between design attributes of a current integrated circuit design and design attributes of the at least one prior design error, wherein the inference processor automatically infers at least one probabilistic solution to the at least one current design error;
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• an alert processor that automatically generates an alert when the inference processor automatically infers at least one probabilistic solution to the at least one current design error.