Method for accelerating the RC extraction in integrated circuit designs

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APP PUB NO 20070204245A1
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11500727

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The present invention provides a system and method for accelerating the resistance and capacitance (RC) extraction process by performing parallel and distributed processing. The method includes the dividing of a given integrated circuit (IC) design into a limited number of non-overlapping tile blocks, distributing tile blocks to standard RC extraction tools, and processing all tiles in parallel by these tools. A tile block includes all information for performing accurate RC extraction. Thereafter, resulting parasitic RC information is assembled to form a complete parasitic RC model for the entire IC.

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ATHENA DESIGN SYSTEMS INC125 CAMBRIDGEPARK DRIVE CAMBRIDGE MA 02140

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Fotakis, Dimitris K Saratoga, CA 4 23
Hembruch, Mattias Fremont, CA 2 18
Scott, Bill Sunnyvale, CA 8 64

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