PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["716", "105000"]

Abstract:
Methods for integrated circuit design are provided. In one embodiment, a method for determining a physical layout pattern includes accessing a layout pattern configuration graph. The graph includes layout pattern configurations meeting a circuit requirements. At least two of the layout pattern configurations are annotated with characteristics by analyzing sample layout patterns. An integrated circuit electrical design is partitioned into circuit design configurations. One of the circuit design configurations meets one of the circuit requirements. One of the layout pattern configurations is selected from the layout pattern configuration graph to meet the selected circuit requirements. In another embodiment, a method for determining a netlist for an integrated circuit electrical design is provided. In a further embodiment, a method for determining a tool configuration for a manufacturing process is provided.

Claim (Index 15):
A method, performed by one or more processors, for optimizing a netlist describing the electrical connectivity of an integrated circuit electrical design, the netlist including a first netlist configuration corresponding to one specific circuit design configuration of the integrated circuit electrical design, and the method comprising:\n accessing a netlist configuration graph comprising a plurality of netlist configurations including the first netlist configuration, wherein the plurality of netlist configurations of the netlist configuration graph is annotated with electrical characteristics; partitioning the integrated circuit electrical design into a plurality of circuit design configurations including the one specific circuit design configuration; selecting, based on the annotated electrical characteristics, a second netlist configuration from the netlist configuration graph, the other netlist configuration corresponding to the one specific circuit design configuration of the integrated circuit electrical design; and replacing the first netlist configuration with the second netlist configuration in the netlist; determining a manufacturing configuration for manufacturing an integrated circuit, the manufacturing configuration comprising the netlist of the integrated circuit electrical design including the second netlist configuration; and manufacturing the integrated circuit using the determined manufacturing configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51786
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15343536', '13251437', '15962277', '14593903', '14750976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3424499502381444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.534085462126287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3616135014269586
- Mean Citation Score: 249.28506800000005
- Max Citation Score: 430.7046
- Similarity Product: 311.8540981849909

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test