摘要 |
A method and apparatus for calculating circuit delay times efficiently arranges and stores data to reduce system memory requirements, which allows computers without large storage devices, such as conventional personal computers with limited hard disk space, to be used for testing preliminary device designs, Delay time ratio coefficient values representing a ratio of a delay time determined by values of dependency factors having a large correlation with one another to a predetermined reference delay time of a circuit element are stored in a coefficient table. The dependency factors include process condition, in use or operational temperature, and first and second operational supply voltages.
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