Patent ID: 7877716

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising a computer readable storage device having a computer readable program code stored therein, said computer readable program code comprising an algorithm adapted to be executed by a computer to implement a method for determining a stopping power of a design structure of an integrated circuit with respect to a traveling particle impacting on the design structure, said method comprising: providing design information of the design structure comprising a back-end-of-line layer of the integrated circuit which includes N interconnect layers, wherein N is a positive integer; dividing each interconnect layer of the N interconnect layers into multiple pixels; determining a first path of the traveling particle in a first interconnect layer of the N interconnect layers; identifying M path pixels of the multiple pixels of the first interconnect layer on the first path of the traveling particle, wherein M is a positive integer; and determining a first loss energy lost by the traveling particle due to its completely passing through a first pixel of the M path pixels.