Versatile Method and Tool for Simulation of Aged Transistors

Patent №

US 8,397,199

Granted

2013-03-12

Filed 2010

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12762861

In an embodiment, an aging analysis tool may be configured to identify transistors that are expected to experience aging effects according to worst case stress vectors and/or designer identified worst case conditions. The aging analysis tool may modify a representation of the circuit (e.g. a netlist), replacing the identified transistors with aged transistors (e.g. by modifying parameters of the transistors in the netlist). The aging analysis tool may process the modified netlist over a range of conditions at which the circuit is expected to operate, to ensure that the design meets specifications after aging. The process may be repeated until the aged design meets specifications (with circuit modifications made by the designer to improve the design).

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.17
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 242540868

Assignors

SONI, APURVI H., OLIVA, ANONIETTA, KLASS, EDGARD F., PAGE, MATTHEW J. T., BURNETTE II, JAMES E.

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