发明名称 Method for improving yield rate using redundant wire insertion
摘要 A method and apparatus for manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC), the method including, generating, by a graphical construction unit, a first graph corresponding to a first net of the IC, the first graph representing a pin of the first net as a vertex, and a connection between two pins of the first net as an edge, the first graph further corresponding to a first IC layout; identifying a first and a second pair of unconnected vertices in the first graph for inserting a first and a second redundant edge, respectively, the first redundant edge and the second redundant edge forming a first connected loop and a second connected loop, respectively, each loop further including at least two edges of the first graph; calculating a tolerance ratio for the first redundant edge and the second redundant edge; sorting the first and second redundant edge based on their tolerance ratio; calculating a yield rate change of the first IC layout associated with inserting one of the first or second redundant edge with a highest tolerance ratio, and updating the first IC layout to include the redundant edge with the highest tolerance ratio if the yield rate change is greater than zero; and calculating the yield rate change of the first IC layout associated with inserting the first or second redundant edge having a second highest tolerance ratio, and updating the first IC layout to include the redundant edge with the second highest tolerance ratio if the yield rate change is greater than zero.
申请公布号 US8336001(B2) 申请公布日期 2012.12.18
申请号 US20100913674 申请日期 2010.10.27
申请人 CHANG FONG-YUAN;MAK WAI-KEI;TSAY REN-SONG;SPRINGSOFT, INC. 发明人 CHANG FONG-YUAN;MAK WAI-KEI;TSAY REN-SONG
分类号 G06F17/50 主分类号 G06F17/50
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