Faulty dangling metal route detection

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2011-03-29

2011-03-29

Nguyen, Ha Tran T (Department: 2858)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components

Of individual circuit component or element

Reexamination Certificate

active

07915907

ABSTRACT:
A system is provided that facilitates locating long dangling metal routes in a semiconductor chip design. The system includes mechanisms for partitioning metal features of the chip design to discover dangling metal routes that could be potential violations. The system further comprises mechanisms for determining if the dangling metal routes of the chip design exceed a length limit that could result antenna violations, undesired noise in the circuit, circuitry breakdown or the like. The system enables excessively long dangling metal routes to be allowed as exceptional cases. Machine learning is provided to receive feedback to refine the exceptional cases and enable more efficient fault detection.

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