METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ACCOMMODATING SPATIALLY-CORRELATED VARIATION IN A PROCESS PARAMETER
Patent №
US 7,212,946
Granted
2007-05-01
Filed 2005
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
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hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11272234
The invention provides a method, system, and program product for accommodating spatially-correlated variation in a process parameter during statistical timing of a circuit. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing an area of the circuit into a plurality of grid cells; associating an independent random variable with each of the plurality of grid cells; and expressing at least one spatially-correlated parameter of a first grid cell as a function of the random variables associated with the first grid cell and at least one neighboring grid cell.
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Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 171240775
Assignors
VENKATESWARAN, NATESAN, VISWESWARIAH, CHANDRAMOULI, ZHANG, LIZHENG, ZOLOTOV, VLADIMIR
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