Method of analyzing electromagnetic interference

• US 7,039,572 B1
• Filed: 07/07/2000
• Issued: 05/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Socionext Inc.
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimazaki, Kenji, Tsujikawa, Hiroyuki, Hamaguchi, Kasumi, Narahara, Hidetoshi, Kojima, Seijirou
• Primary Examiner(s): Rodriguez, Paul L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): THANGAVELU, KANDASAMY
• Application Number:
  US09/612,582
• Time in Patent Office: 2,125 Days
• Field of Search: 703/14, 703/15, 703/16, 703/17, 703/19, 716/2, 716/4, 716/6, 702/75, 702/183, 702/70, 702/65, 324/750, 327/158, 327/170, 706/14, 360/78, 360/77, 360/75, 326/27
• US Class Current: 703/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/367 Design verification, e.g. using simulation, simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis [SPICE], direct methods or relaxation methods

Abstract

In a gate-level logic simulation, a change in electric current is calculated from event information 5 output from a logic simulator 4 through use of a current waveform calculation section 7. The thus-calculated change in current is subjected to FFT processing through use of an FFT processing section 9, thereby determining a frequency characteristic of EMI and enabling EMI analysis.

Claims

1. An electromagnetic interference analysis method for analyzing the amount of electromagnetic interference arising in an LSI by means of performing a gate level logic simulation, the method comprising:

an instantaneous current amount calculation step of calculating the amount of instantaneous electric current from event information, the information being produced when a change arises in a signal and including the instance name of each cell in which the change has arisen, the name of the signal, a time at which the change has arisen, and transition information;

a triangular waveform modeling step of modeling the instantaneous current as a triangular waveform whose width is calculated from each event information in consideration of output slew information for an output terminal of a cell for each event information such that the area of the triangular waveform becomes equal to the amount of electric current of each event, the height of the triangular waveform being calculated on the basis of the width, and,

an FFT processing step further including a step of subjecting to FFT processing information concerning a change in current, the information being calculated in the triangular waveform modeling step.

2. The electromagnetic interference analysis method as defined in claim 1, wherein the triangular waveform is an isosceles triangle, wherein an event occurs at the center of the width of the isosceles triangle, and wherein the width is the base of the isosceles triangle.