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1. A method for designing an integrated circuit with a plurality of layers interconnected together by sought three-dimensional connection devices (56), comprising the following steps:
providing (100, 102) reference files (54) modeling a reference design flow including a predefined set (50, 52) of three-dimensional connection devices (30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46) and reference design rules, providing (104) a design rule manual (58) relating to a sought integrated circuit design flow, generating (106) modeling files (60) of the sought design flow based on the reference files (54) and the design rule manual (58) provided, characterized in that, the sought three-dimensional connection devices (56) all being chosen from the three-dimensional connection devices (30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46) of the reference design flow, the step (106) for generating the modeling files (60) of the sought design flow comprises filtering of the reference files (54) by deleting any data relating to non-selected three-dimensional connection devices and by specifying the reference design rules (50) using the design rule manual (58) provided, and in that the method further comprises a step for designing a model (62) of the integrated circuit using the modeling files (60) generated. |
