Patent ID: 8904324

Claim:
A method for adapting a planar design to a planar design integrated with fin-based design criteria, comprising: receiving width and local interconnect information for a planar region; generating a smart Pcell, wherein the smart Pcell contains information for the planar design and a fin-based design; receiving a fin pitch value; using a computer to compute a quantized region width for a quantized region, based on the received width information and the fin pitch value; generating a quantization label for the quantized region; performing a check to determine a desired design type, and in response to determination of a fin-based design, replacing the quantization label with a standard label; computing a quantized local interconnect region width based on the fin pitch value; and generating a stream format indicative of the desired design type, wherein the desired design type includes one of planar design, and fin-based design.