Patent ID: 8645875

Claim:
A system for quantifying manufacturing complexity of electrical designs, comprising: a defects image generator module operable to run on a processor and to generate defects image data and combine the defects image data randomly with image data representing electrical wiring design to simulate a plurality of defects associated with the electrical wiring design; and an image analysis module operable to run on a processor and to determine a difference in the number of distinct features in the image data representing electrical wiring design and the combined defects image data and the image data, said difference representing quantification of shorting potential for said electrical wiring design, wherein the image data representing electrical wiring design comprises a plurality of electrical components, wherein the defects image data that do not touch one or more of the plurality of electrical components in the combined defects image data and the image data is removed from the combined defects image data and the image data, wherein the difference in the number of distinct features comprises a difference in a total number of the plurality of electrical components that are not touching in the image data and a total number of the plurality of electrical components that are not touching in the combined defects image data and the image data, wherein two or more of the plurality of electrical components in the combined defects image data and the image data, connected by a defect image are considered as touching and counted as one distinct feature.