Patents Assigned to BTA Technology Inc.
  • Hot carrier effect simulation for integrated circuits
    Patent number: 6278964
    Abstract: An approach for simulating hot carrier effects in an integrated circuit (IC) at the circuit level includes generating a hot carrier library of delay data for each cell in the IC, using the hot carrier library data to generate a set of scaled timing data for the IC and using the scaled timing data with a IC performance simulator to simulate the IC operation. The scaled timing data is based upon the cell delay data and time-based switching activity of each cell in the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., BTA Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Jingkun Fang, Hirokazu Yonezawa, Lifeng Wu, Yoshiyuki Kawakami, Nobufusa Iwanishi, Alvin I-Hsien Chen, Norio Koike, Ping Chen, Chune-Sin Yeh, Zhihong Liu