Microcircuit devices are used in a variety of products, from automobiles to microwaves to
personal computers. Design ing and fabricating microcircuit devices involves many steps …

The present invention includes a method for modeling devices having different geometries,
in which a range of interest for device geometrical variations is divided into a plurality of …

A system and method tests for functional equivalence prior to automatically retiming a high-
level specification. An Intermediate Representation (IR) includes one or more graphs or …

A method of analyzing and designing circuits comprising creating a set of interpolated
models for transistor devices; creating a set of characterized (direct fit) models for the …

BACKGROUND One goal of circuit design and/or program coding is to optimize some
aspect of a system with the goal of improving its quality. One Such optimization approach …

A system for analyzing a model of an electronic circuit, which includes at least one non-
linear circuit element, includes a computer. The computer replaces the non-linear circuit …

A method of providing simulation results includes detecting any power net and rail in a
circuit netlist. The circuit can be divided into net-partitioned blocks. Using these net …

A technique for performing an analysis of a logic design includes detecting an initial
transient behavior in a logic design embodied in a netlist. A duration of the initial transient …

A method of simulating an integrated circuit design is provided. In this method, a node order
ranking of nodes in a netlist can be determined. Circuits of the netlist can then be partitioned …

Various embodiments of methods of designing an integrated 7, 2008. circuit (IC). One
embodiment of one such method includes:(51) Int. Cl.(1) generating a functional design for …