RISK EVALUATION
    1.
    发明申请
    RISK EVALUATION 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180330024A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US16042952

    申请日:2018-07-23

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50 G06F17/18

    摘要: For risk evaluation, a method encodes event data as a linear array that includes a plurality of logic states. The method estimates a success probability for each logic state and identifies path groups of the plurality of logic states. The logic states of each path group must all be healthy for each logic state to contribute to system success. The method further identifies each path combination of path groups and path nodes that result in system success. In addition, the method calculates a system success probability as a sum of success probabilities for each path combination. The success rate for each path combination is calculated as a product of the path group success probabilities for the path combination.

    SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND ESTIMATING SUSCEPTIBILITY OF CIRCUITS TO RADIATION-INDUCED SINGLE-EVENT-EFFECTS

    公开(公告)号:US20180328983A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US16041165

    申请日:2018-07-20

    发明人: Michel D Sika

    IPC分类号: G01R31/28 G06F17/50

    摘要: Systems and methods for semiconductor design evaluation. IC layout information of a circuit design is received, and the circuit design is decomposed into smaller circuit pieces. Each circuit piece has IC layout information and a netlist. For each circuit piece, a set of strike models is selected based on the layout information and the net-list of the circuit piece and received radiation environment information. Each strike model has circuit components with voltage values corresponding to a respective particle strike. For each selected strike model of a circuit piece: a radiation susceptibility metric is determined by comparing functional results of simulation of the of the strike model with functional results of simulation of the circuit piece. For each circuit piece, a radiation susceptibility metric is determined based on the radiation susceptibility metrics generated for each selected strike model of the circuit piece.

    METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING AND MODELING LEAKAGE STATISTICS AND THRESHOLD VOLTAGE FOR ENSEMBLE DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20180259569A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-13

    申请号:US15976349

    申请日:2018-05-10

    发明人: Ning LU

    IPC分类号: G01R31/26 G06F17/50 G01R31/02

    摘要: An approach for determining leakage current and threshold voltage for ensemble semiconductor devices, implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having program instructions, are operable to: receive a number m of individual devices within an ensemble device; identify a sub-threshold slope; determine an uplift factor; separate random variation in logarithm of a leakage current into a correlated random component and an uncorrelated random component; determine a first standard deviation of correlated random component for the ensemble device; determine a second standard deviation of the uncorrelated random component for the ensemble device; generate a statistical model for electrical features of the ensemble device, based on the number m of individual devices, the sub-threshold slope, the uplift factor, the first and second standard deviation, and statistical random variables; and determine the electrical features of the ensemble device based on the statistical model.

    Method of performing static timing analysis for an integrated circuit

    公开(公告)号:US09977845B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-22

    申请号:US14982921

    申请日:2015-12-29

    发明人: Moon-Su Kim

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50

    摘要: A method of performing a static timing analysis on an integrated circuit includes loading a library that includes local random variation information of the integrated circuit and global variation information of the integrated circuit that is obtained based on a set of a plurality of global variation parameters of the integrated circuit, calculating delays of timing arcs included in the integrated circuit based on the library, and determining whether at least one timing path of a plurality of timing paths included in the integrated circuit violates a timing constraint based on the delays of the timing arcs in the at least one timing path, the local random variation information of the integrated circuit and the global variation information of the integrated circuit.

    FORECASTING SYSTEMS
    8.
    发明申请
    FORECASTING SYSTEMS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180089577A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-29

    申请号:US15726258

    申请日:2017-10-05

    发明人: Ignacio Ruiz

    IPC分类号: G06N7/02

    摘要: A computer-implemented method of determining an approximated value of a parameter in a first domain is described. The parameter is dependent on one or more variables which vary in a second domain, and the parameter is determined by a function which relates sets of values of the one or more variables in the second domain to corresponding values in the first domain. The method is implemented on a computer system including a processor, and the method comprises: determining a plurality of anchor points in the second domain, wherein each anchor point comprises a set of values of the one or more variables in the second domain; evaluating, at each anchor point, the function to generate corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; generating an approximation function to the function by fitting a series of orthogonal functions or an approximation to a series of orthogonal functions to the corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; and using the approximation function to generate the approximated value of the parameter in the first domain.

    Tool apparatus, method and computer program for designing an integrated circuit

    公开(公告)号:US09922146B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-20

    申请号:US14778107

    申请日:2013-03-21

    申请人: Pascal Caunegre

    发明人: Pascal Caunegre

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50

    摘要: An integrated circuit design tool apparatus includes a processing resource configured to support a circuit simulator, a circuit sensitivity optimizer and a circuit sensitivity calculator. The circuit sensitivity optimizer is adapted to communicate to the circuit simulator a first dynamic list of selected devices of the circuit; and a second dynamic list of selected process parameters associated with the selected devices of the first dynamic list. The circuit simulator is configured to communicate to the circuit sensitivity calculator, a performance metrics of the circuit in response thereto. The circuit sensitivity calculator is configured to determine one sensitivity coefficient for each device of the first dynamic list in response thereto. The circuit sensitivity calculator is further configured to determine and communicate to the circuit sensitivity optimizer a variance of the performance metrics and also adapted to gradually determine whether or not to further communicate with the circuit simulator.