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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900167 | Silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor structure and method Disclosed is a design structure for an improved semiconductor structure (e.g., a silicon germanium (SiGe) hetero-junction bipolar transistor) having a narrow essentially interstitial-free SIC pedestal with minimal overlap of the extrinsic base. Also, disclosed is a ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882477 | Method and apparatus for creating layout model, computer product, and method of manufacturing device A layout-model creating apparatus creates a layout-model for a mechanical computer-aided design from component information including heights and layout information of components created by an electrical computer-aided design. A height determining unit determines whe... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7870527 | Method for stacked pattern design of printed circuit board and system thereof A method for designing stacked pattern of PCB utilizing genetic algorithm and the system thereof are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: First of all, information data of stacked pattern is inputted into operational interface of the software; Next, ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870526 | Aid apparatus, computer-readable recording medium in which design aid program is stored, and interactive design aid apparatus Logical design of a circuit or a printed board including a number of components is carried out with improved flexibility in determination of the positions and the number of logical terminals of a symbol in order to easily create a logical circuit diagram high invisi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865857 | System and method for improved visualization and debugging of constraint circuit objects Features are provided for graphically representing constraints on design objects in an Electronic Design Automation tool. A particular constraint on one or more circuit objects is displayed as a highlighted region that extends to each visible circuit object to which... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7849433 | Integrated circuit with uniform polysilicon perimeter density, method and design structure Disclosed are embodiments of forming an integrated circuit with a desired decoupling capacitance and with the uniform and targeted across-chip polysilicon perimeter density. The method includes laying out functional blocks to form the circuit according to the design... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840929 | Method for automatically modifying frame of circuit diagram A method for automatically modifying a frame of a circuit diagram is applicable for a computer-executable circuit layout software, which determines intersection or discontinuity of line segments generated after a diagram is converted through using a program, and aut... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831948 | Method and system for automatically generating schematics Method and system for automatically generating schematic diagrams of an assembly is provided. The method includes providing one or more identifiers for an assembly, the identifiers providing index to an assembly and component database. A plurality of components for ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827514 | Efficient electromagnetic modeling of irregular metal planes A method of modeling electromagnetism in an irregular conductive plane, by dividing the surface into a grid of unequal and unaligned rectangles, assigning a circuit node location to a center of each rectangle, and calculating capacitive and inductive parameters base... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823111 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device, semiconductor integrated circuit design method, and semiconductor integrated circuit design apparatus A semiconductor integrated circuit design method includes a step (L) of providing layout information for laying out elements making up a logical circuit on a semiconductor substrate; a step (P) of providing logical circuit information; a step (a) of classifying logi... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7810064 | Systems, methods and computer products for traversing schematic hierarchy using a scrolling mechanism A method and a system for displaying hierarchical navigating, debugging and editing of selected hierarchical levels of design of a plurality of hierarchical levels of design in graphical hierarchical design applications, by assigning, from a schematic of the integra... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7810063 | Graphical user interface for prototyping early instance density According to various embodiments of the invention electronic circuit design information can be presented to a designer by determining an electronic circuit comprising at least two gates and by determining a distance of one gate relative to another gate in a stage. A... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805695 | Presentation of a simulated or hardware system including configuration entities Within a display device, a respective one of a plurality of design graphical representations is displayed for each of a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entity instances within a simulated system. The design entity instances include a particular design en... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805696 | Method for fast identification of available reference designators in a design automation system A method, system, and computer program product for a faster identification of available reference designators (ARDs) in a design automation system. An ARD utility detects a selection of one or more selected component types for placement on a circuit schematic. A lis... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805694 | Apparatus and method to facilitate hierarchical netlist checking An apparatus and method are disclosed which determine locations where verification data should exist in a circuit representation and then propagates verification or circuit properties within a circuit representation. For a hierarchical representation of a circuit, a... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7802221 | Design tool with graphical interconnect matrix Techniques and mechanisms provide numerous representations and/or control of component interconnections in a digital design. For example, aspects of the invention provide a connection panel where connections can be presented in different modes. The different modes c... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797661 | Method and apparatus for describing and managing properties of a transformer coil A method and apparatus for describing and managing properties of a transformer coil. A metadata text file is generated which contains metadata describing objects of the transformer coil. The objects are arranged hierarchically and have one or more related properties... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793248 | Method and apparatus for parameterizing hardware description language code in a system level design environment A method for managing an electronic design automation tool includes importing a component. A graphical user interface is generated to allow a user to enter values for parameters of the component. Other embodiments are disclosed. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788621 | Method and apparatus for creating layout model, computer product, and method of manufacturing device A layout-model creating apparatus creates a layout-model for a mechanical computer-aided design from component information including heights and layout information of components created by an electrical computer-aided design. A height determining unit determines whe... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7784007 | Method for automatically producing layout information A method of automatically producing layout information includes receiving first layout information of an integrated circuit; when receiving the first layout information, activating an automated process mechanism to stores the first layout information into a referenc... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7784005 | Electronic circuit design viewer Various approaches for displaying design data that implements an electronic design in lookup tables (LUTs) of a programmable logic device are disclosed. In one approach, a user is presented for selection at least two selectable modes for displaying a function perfor... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7784006 | Method and apparatus for directed physical implementation of a circuit design for an integrated circuit Method and apparatus for implementing a circuit design for an integrated circuit is described. In one example, matching elements between a modified version of the circuit design and an implemented version of the circuit design are identified. Recommended placements ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7784004 | Skew lots for IC oscillators and other analog circuits Integrated circuits, key components in thousands of products, frequently include thousands and even millions of microscopic transistors and other electrical components. Because of difficulties and costs of fabricating these circuits, circuit designers sometimes ask ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774733 | Method and apparatus for user interface in home network and electronic device and storage medium therefor A user interface method and apparatus which allow a user to intuitively control electronic devices connected to a home network by using a virtual 3D space layout diagram, and electronic devices and storage media therefor are provided. The user interface method inclu... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765508 | Method and system for generating multiple implementation views of an IC design A method and system for generating from a high-level placement specification the layout and schematic implementation data is disclosed. In addition packaging data and a software model may also be generated. In one embodiment an array of rows and columns is formed on... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7765506 | Method and apparatus for automated synthesis of multi-channel circuits Methods and apparatuses to time-share resources having internal states are described. A first design of a system having a plurality of instances of a logical block to perform logical operations is received. The instances may have internal states. The system is autom... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7765507 | Design support method, design support apparatus, computer product A design support apparatus includes a detecting unit, a determining unit, and an inserting unit. The detecting unit detects a via that connects wirings in a circuit to be designed that is expressed by layout information. The determining unit determines the connectio... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761835 | Semiconductor device design method, semiconductor device design system, and computer program for extracting parasitic parameters A design method of a semiconductor device is provided with a mask region setting step of setting a mask region to a layout of the semiconductor device, a parasitic parameter changing step of setting parasitic parameters of a wiring part within the mask region to zer... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761834 | Interactive schematic for use in analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuit design For application to analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits, a system and method to improve the flow of setting up a set of simulations, a characterization, or optimization problem via an interactive circuit schematic. A system and method to visualize circu... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752589 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for displaying and modifying the critical area of an integrated circuit design A method, apparatus, and computer program product for visually indicating the interaction between one or more edges of a design that contribute to a defined critical area pattern. ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747975 | Timing violation debugging inside place and route tool A storage medium for use in a computer to develop a circuit design. The storage medium recording a software tool that may be readable and executable by the computer. The software tool generally includes the steps of (A) receiving a first user input that identifies a... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739645 | Method and apparatus for determining a process model using a 2-D-pattern detecting kernel One embodiment provides a system for determining an improved process model that models one or more semiconductor manufacturing processes. During operation, the system can receive a first process model. Next, the system can receive a 2-D-pattern detecting kernel whic... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739646 | Analog and mixed signal IC layout system A computer-based placement and routing (P&R) tool stores a set of circuit patterns, each describing a separate device group by referencing each device of the device group and by indicating which device elements forming the referenced devices are interconnected by ne... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7725859 | Methods and mechanisms for inserting metal fill data A method for implementing virtual metal fill includes obtaining a layout record for a circuit design, and inserting metal fill data into the layout record based on one or more rules, wherein the metal fill data represents a consolidation of actual metal fill. A meth... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7721241 | Automated method and tool for documenting a transformer design A method and tool for creating documentation for a transformer design uses design files created during the transformer design process to generate drawings and other information necessary to populate documentation. The design files contain information relating to the... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716618 | Method and system for designing semiconductor circuit devices to reduce static power consumption A method and system are disclosed for designing a complex integrated electronic circuit architecture including a plurality of circuit portions integrated into a single chip structure. The method includes providing at least one library of cells with a variable channe... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716619 | Design structure for implementing dynamic data path with interlocked keeper and restore devices A keeper device design structure for dynamic logic used in integrated circuit designs includes a first keeper path statically coupled to a dynamic data path, the first keeper path configured to prevent false discharge of the dynamic data path during an evaluation th... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707534 | Circuit board design tool and methods A design tool for printed circuit boards displays a graphical representation of a printed circuit board layout through a graphical user interface (GUI). Comments for particular components of the printed circuit board layout can be entered through the graphical user ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707535 | Stitched IC chip layout design structure Stitched integrated circuit (IC) chip layout design structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes: an integrated circuit (IC) chip layout exceeding a size of a photolithography... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7707533 | Data-mining-based knowledge extraction and visualization of analog/mixed-signal/custom digital circuit design flow A system and method of generating a set of circuit simulation data, applying data mining to for knowledge extraction from the data, and graphically presenting the extracted knowledge in a format that is easy to digest to a designer. ... | 04/27/2010 |
