Patent ID: 6950997

Claim:
A method for designing an integrated circuit by a user, comprising: evaluating noise parameters for design elements of an integrated circuit design; determining if said noise parameters meet noise constraints of said integrated circuit design; if said determining has determined that said noise parameters do not meet said noise constraints, further determining if alternative design elements having noise parameters that do meet said noise constraints exist; if said further determining has further determined that alternative design elements having noise parameters that do meet said noise constraints exist, selecting said alternative design elements and replacing said design elements with said alternative design elements; and for design elements not meeting said noise constraints and for which no alternative design element that meets said noise constraints exist, selecting noise suppression elements and integrating said noise suppression elements into said integrated circuit design, said noise suppression elements selected from the group consisting of band-stop guard ring filters, frequency response profiled bond pads, bond pads surrounded by band-stop guard ring filters, circuits surrounded by band-stop guard ring filters, shielded wires connected to circuit band-stop guard rings and shielded wires connecting circuit band-stop guard rings and bond pad band-stop guard rings.