Context-Aware Circuit Layout Construct for EDA
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional circuit design technologies lack context-awareness in automatically inserting vias and pattern matching, often requiring iterative design rule constraint engines and simple search-and-replace methods, which can lead to design rule constraint violations and inefficiencies in circuit layout creation.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a context-aware circuit design layout construct that uses programmable patterns of layout shapes, adaptable based on location-specific context information, including electrical and physical data, to ensure compliance with design rule constraints and avoid violations, by adjusting dimensions, positions, and topologies of layout shapes dynamically.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If simple search-and-replace methods are used for pattern matching, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to design rule constraint violations
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes parameters of layout shapes (dimensions, positions, topologies) based on context information from electrical and physical data, ensuring design rule compliance while maintaining automated operation
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback loops where context information from the circuit design layout is continuously analyzed to adjust layout shape parameters, ensuring that design rule constraints are met while maintaining ease of automated operation
2Manufacturing precision
If iterative design rule constraint engines are used, then the manufacturing precision is improved, but the productivity deteriorates due to repeated iterations
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-analyzing context information and pre-adjusting layout shape parameters before final placement, ensuring design rule compliance in a single pass rather than through repeated iterations
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically analyzing context information and adjusting layout parameters without requiring external iterative intervention, achieving both precision and efficiency through autonomous context-aware adaptation
3Device complexity
If fixed patterns are used for layout insertion, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability deteriorates due to inability to adjust based on location context
Solution Approach 1:
The system transforms fixed static patterns into dynamic adaptable constructs that automatically adjust their parameters based on context information from the specific location in the circuit design layout, maintaining simplicity while enabling flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by allowing different layout shapes to have different parameters based on their specific location context within the circuit design layout, ensuring each instance is optimally adapted to its local electrical and physical environment
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments provide for context-aware circuit design layout construct, which may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). In particular, some embodiments enable use of a circuit design layout construct with a layout of a circuit design (hereafter, a circuit design layout), where a programmable pattern of layout shapes of the circuit design layout construct can be inserted into a circuit design layout and can be adapted based on context information associated with the location of its placement within the circuit design layout.