Methods, systems, and articles of manufactures for implementing electronic circuit designs with IR-drop awareness
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method for implementing an electronic circuit design with IR-drop awareness, comprising:
- prior to completing an incomplete net of the electronic circuit design, using at least one processor to perform a process, the process comprising;
identifying, determining, or updating physical data of a component that is situated along the incomplete net in an incomplete physical design of the electronic circuit design;
characterizing an electrical parasitic that is associated with the physical data of the component by at least assembling one or more pieces of electric current information or one or more voltages in a schematic domain, rather than in a physical domain to which the incomplete physical design belongs; and
characterizing an electrical characteristic that is associated with the electrical parasitic and the physical data of the component while the component is being added or modified along the incomplete net of the electronic circuit design.
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Abstract
Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for implementing electronic circuit designs with IR-drop awareness. Some embodiments perform schematic level simulation(s) to determine electrical characteristics, identifies physical parasitics of a layout component, determines the electrical or physical characteristics associated to IR-drop analysis on the component, and determines whether the component meets IR-drop related constraint(s) while implementing the physical design of the electronic circuit in some embodiments. Some embodiments further determine adjustment(s) to the component or related data where the IR-drop related constraints are not met and/or and present the adjustment(s) in the form of hints. Various data and information, such as currents in various forms or voltages, are passed between various schematic level tools and physical level tools.
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1. A computer implemented method for implementing an electronic circuit design with IR-drop awareness, comprising:
prior to completing an incomplete net of the electronic circuit design, using at least one processor to perform a process, the process comprising; identifying, determining, or updating physical data of a component that is situated along the incomplete net in an incomplete physical design of the electronic circuit design; characterizing an electrical parasitic that is associated with the physical data of the component by at least assembling one or more pieces of electric current information or one or more voltages in a schematic domain, rather than in a physical domain to which the incomplete physical design belongs; and characterizing an electrical characteristic that is associated with the electrical parasitic and the physical data of the component while the component is being added or modified along the incomplete net of the electronic circuit design. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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