Patent ID: 8453097

Claim:
A method of designing semiconductor circuit components having nominal values in a desired ratio to each other, each component constructed as a combination of a number of repeated identical elements, comprising: receiving as an input at a computing device a first desired value for a first component and a second desired value for a second component; calculating by the computing device the ratio between the desired values for the first component and the second component; receiving as an input at the computing device the number of repeated identical elements to be used in each component; determining by the computing device the possible combinations of series and parallel connections of the received number of repeated identical elements; calculating by the computing device a value for each combination based upon a unity value for the repeated identical elements; identifying by the computing device two combinations from the determined combinations that have the desired ratio between the determined values; and calculating an actual value for the repeated identical elements that, when multiplied by the calculated values of the selected two combinations, results in the received values for the first component and the second component.