METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPLEMENTING HOTSPOT DETECTION, REPAIR, AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN

• Main Authors: PYKE RON, SMITH TABER, DODDI SRINIVAS, DREGE EMMANUEL, LEE BRIAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.12.2010
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing hotspot detection, repair, and optimization of an electronic circuit design, which, in some embodiments, defines, identifies criteria for hotspots/metrics or optimization objective function; performs the initial hotspot or metric prediction; identifies correction candidate(s); applies a correction candidate to the electronic circuit design; and determines whether the outcome of applying the correction candidate is acceptable. The method or the system identifies custom correction candidate(s) or custom command(s) and identifies one or more hints for the predicted hotspots or metrics; provides a single architecture to use a first model for hotspot identification/correction and a second model for design check; and provides the capability to apply a correction for a hotspot or metric, evaluate the effectiveness of the correction on the fly, and revert any changes made to the electronic circuit design by the correction.