Patent ID: 11879933
Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. The testing system of claim 19, wherein performing the simulation of the first heat distribution throughout the integrated circuit design comprises:
obtaining configured power information and location information for each circuit block of a set of circuit blocks and a set of heaters in the integrated circuit design;
determining a heat signature of the integrated circuit design from the configured power information and the location information for each circuit block of the set of circuit blocks and each heater of the set of heaters included in the integrated circuit design, the heat signature including heat values distributed throughout the integrated circuit design;
determining whether the heat values of the heat signature of the integrated circuit design are within a heat range; and
modifying the integrated circuit design in response to determining that the heat values of the heat signature of the integrated circuit design are not within the heat range.