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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHenry A. Bonges, III, Michael S. Gray, Jason D. Hibbeler, Kevin W. McCullen, Robert F. Walker
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A method, system and program product for merging cloned and original circuit shapes such that a union thereof does not include a notch. The invention determines, for a cell including an original circuit shape and at least one overlapping clone of the original circuit shape, whether each clone corner point of each overlapping clone is within a threshold distance of a corresponding original corner point of the original circuit shape; and generates, in the case that each clone corner point of each overlapping clone circuit shape is within a threshold distance, a union of each overlapping clone and the original circuit shape such that the union does not contain a notch. The union is generated using a point code that sets a new position for a union corner point to remove a notch based on the original shape's direction and the edge orientations previous to and next to the corner point.
A method for merging an original circuit shape and at least one overlapping clone of the original circuit shape of an IC design, the method comprising the steps of:
A system for merging an original circuit shape and at least one clone of the original circuit shape of an IC design, the system comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein when executed performs merging an original circuit shape and at least one clone of the original circuit shape of an IC design, the program product comprising:
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