Patent ID: 7530039

Claim:
A method for simulating distributed effects associated with a semiconductor device that includes a first metallization, a second metallization, and an active area, the method comprising: providing a physical layout of the semiconductor device; providing a meshing pattern; superimposing the meshing pattern on the physical layout; partitioning the physical layout into unit cells in accordance with the meshing pattern; extracting components from the unit cells, wherein the components include a first set of series resistors that model the first metallization, a second set of series resistors that model the second metallization, and a set of devices between the first set of series resistors and the second set of series resistors that model the active area, wherein the set of devices include devices that correspond to a type of the semiconductor device; forming a netlist of the components extracted from the unit cells; and simulating electrical operation of the netlist of unit cells and determining the distributed effects associated therewith.