Patent ID: 7155684

Claim:
A method for forming a wiring structure, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining an amount of voltage drop due to a resistance of a voltage supply line connected to a circuit portion of an integrated circuit device and a wiring structure equation representing a correlation between an area of the circuit portion and a current of the circuit portion; (b) determining, when the circuit portion is subdivided while a ratio between the area of the circuit portion and the current of the circuit portion is maintained, a circuit characteristic equation representing a correlation between an area of each of subdivided circuit portions and a current of the subdivided circuit portion; and (c) determining a structure of the voltage supply line such that the area of the subdivided circuit portion and the current of the subdivided circuit portion are equal to or less than an area and a current given by solutions of simultaneous equations composed of the wiring structure equation and the circuit characteristic equation.