US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Aug. 4 for "Unified framework and method for accurate context-aware timing modeling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,828, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Unified framework and method for accurate context-aware timing modeling" was invented by Ruijing Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Li Ding (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device determines cell boundary conditions for each of a plurality of boundaries of a cell in an integrated circuit layout and determines a layout dependent effect (LDE) impact for the cell based on the cell boundary conditions for each of the plurality of boundaries of the cell. The processing device further generates a prediction of an LDE impact on one or more cont...