Patent ID: 9665673
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for analyzing performance of a microelectronic circuit design comprising: receiving an alteration of an original width to a received width of an expected footprint of a first component of the microelectronic circuit design; obtaining technical information of the first component of the microelectronic circuit design from a database storing at least one design file of the microelectronic circuit design; associating at least one first pin of the first component of the microelectronic circuit design and a first pin of a second component of the microelectronic circuit design with a first virtual net of the microelectronic circuit design; calculating a first input capacitance from at least one input capacitance model estimate, the first input capacitance associated with the alteration of the original width to the received width of the expected footprint of the first component of the microelectronic circuit design, wherein the at least one input capacitance model estimate comprises the received width of the footprint of the first component minus the original width of the footprint of the first component, divided by the original width of the footprint of the first component; simulating the microelectronic circuit design while applying the calculated first input capacitance at the first virtual net, the simulation providing at least one circuit performance parameter based at least on the calculated first input capacitance of the first virtual net; and creating a microelectronic circuit comprising at least the first component from the microelectronic circuit design.