Patent ID: 7712057
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of determining allowable antenna limits for semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) technology, the method comprising: determining antenna area on a gate net; determining antenna area on a source/drain net; determining a total gate insulator area between gate and source/drain nets by using a marker shape over a gate insulator area between the gate net and source/drain net of concern to short the gate net and the source/drain net and summing a gate insulator area between the gate net and the source/drain net to determine the total gate insulator area between the gate net and the source/drain net; calculating, on a computer system, allowable antenna areas for the gate net and for the source/drain net as a function of the total gate insulator area between the gate net and the source/drain net; and modifying at least one of: the antenna area of the gate net, the antenna area of the source/drain net, a circuit topology or the total gate insulator area, in response to the antenna area exceeding the allowable antenna area.