Patent ID: 9710577
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at an extractor, layout information associated with a circuit design; generating three-dimensional (3-D) heat source grid information based on the layout information, an extracted netlist, and wire information; sending the wire information to an electromigration(EM)/current(IR) analyzer; sending the extracted netlist to a circuit simulator, the circuit simulator configured to generate temperature waveforms and current waveforms based on the extracted netlist; sending the 3-D heat source grid information to a thermal analysis component, the thermal analysis component configured to generate heat source information to be provided to the EM/IR analyzer; and determining, at the EM/IR analyzer, an electromigration risk associated with a wire based on the wire information, the current waveforms, and the heat source information.