Patents Examined by Nha T Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12175181
    Abstract: A method of performing an optimization within a circuit layout design is provided. The method includes determining, from multiple nets of the circuit layout design, a target net that has one or more performance characteristics that are outside a range of constraints, determining, from the multiple nets, a non-critical net that has the one or more performance characteristics that are within the range of the constraints, and adjusting, by a processor, one or more of a shape and a location of one or more of the non-critical net and the target net, such that the one or more performance characteristics of the non-critical net is changed and remains within the range of the constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Bon Woong Ku, Nahmsuk Oh, Cho Moon
  • Patent number: 12169759
    Abstract: The first layer includes a first gate electrode array disposed in the first direction to control the qubits of the qubit string, and a second gate electrode array disposed in the first direction to control the inter-qubit interaction of the interaction string. The second layer includes a third gate electrode array disposed in the second direction, and a fourth gate electrode array disposed in the second direction adjacently to the third gate electrode array. The third and the fourth gate electrode arrays control a part of the multiple qubits, and a part of the multiple inter-qubit interactions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Lee, Ryuta Tsuchiya, Digh Hisamoto
  • Patent number: 12169677
    Abstract: A genetic algorithm is utilized to generate routing candidates to which a reinforcement learning model is applied to correct the design rule constraint violations incrementally. A design rule checker provides feedback on the violations to the reinforcement learning model and the model learns how to fix the violations. A layout device placer based upon a simulated annealing method may also be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corp.
    Inventors: Haoxing Ren, Matthew Rudolph Fojtik
  • Patent number: 12169678
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operating method of an electronic device for manufacture of a semiconductor device. The operating method includes receiving a layout image of the semiconductor device, generating an intermediate image by generating assist features based on main features of the layout image, evaluating a process result by performing simulation based on the intermediate image, and correcting the intermediate image by correcting shapes of the main features and/or the assist features of the intermediate image based on the process result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Useong Kim, Bayram Yenikaya, Mindy Lee, Xin Zhou, Hee-Jun Lee, Woo-Yong Cho
  • Patent number: 12164852
    Abstract: A layout method for an integrated circuit includes the following steps: providing a layout, the layout including a first element region and a second element region, a spacing region being provided between the first element region and the second element region; and detecting whether a width of the spacing region is less than a preset width, and if yes, marking at least one of the first element region, the second element region and the spacing region, the preset width being a minimum width meeting a requirement, wherein the requirement is to fill the spacing region with at least one dummy pattern. A layout apparatus employing the layout method for the integrated circuit can quickly and accurately position a poorly-placed element region in the layout, improve the layout efficiency and layout precision of the integrated circuit, and lay a foundation for improving photolithography quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Chuanjiang Chen, Kang Zhao, Li Bai, Li Tang, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 12155020
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes at least one light emitting diode chip, a conductive portion disposed under the light emitting diode chip and coupled to the light emitting diode chip, and an insulating material surrounding the conductive portion. The conductive portion includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion, and the insulating material is formed to expose at least a portion of the upper surfaces of the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motonobu Takeya, Jong Ik Lee
  • Patent number: 12147156
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of fabricating a semiconductor layout comprising the following steps. A layout is provided, and the layout includes a plurality of connection patterns. The connection patterns are decomposed to a plurality of first connection patterns and a plurality of second connection patterns alternatively arranged with each other. An optical proximity correction process is performed on the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns to form a plurality of third connection patterns and a plurality of fourth connection patterns, wherein at least a portion of the third connection patterns is overlapped with the fourth connection patterns. The third connection patterns and the fourth connection patterns are outputted to form photomasks. Accordingly, the quality of the photomask may be improved, and the photomask may therefore include more accurate patterns and contours. The present disclosure also provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifei Yan, Wenzhang Li
  • Patent number: 12118286
    Abstract: A novel wiring layout design method is provided. A wiring layout in which a starting terminal group and an end terminal group are electrically connected to each other is generated using layout information and a netlist. In the case where the wiring layout satisfies a design rule, a wiring resistance and a parasitic capacitance of the wiring layout are extracted. The layout information is updated using Q learning and a new wiring layout is generated. In the Q learning, a positive reward is given when the values of the wiring resistance and the parasitic capacitance decrease, and a weight of the neural network is updated in accordance with the reward. In the case where the new wiring layout satisfies the design rule, a wiring resistance and a parasitic capacitance of the new wiring layout are extracted. In the case where the change rate of the wiring resistance and the parasitic capacitance is high, the layout information is updated using the Q learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Koumura
  • Patent number: 12118281
    Abstract: An LCS orchestrator device/expansion device secondary circuit board system includes a secondary circuit board having an orchestrator connector subsystem connected to an orchestrator processing system that performs orchestration for an LCS. A primary connector on the secondary circuit board connects to a host processing system that provides an operating system for LCS, and is coupled via the secondary circuit board to a first orchestrator connector in the orchestrator connector subsystem to provide an orchestrator/host coupling used by the orchestrator processing system to provide a host endpoint to the host processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Kevin Warren Mundt
  • Patent number: 12118432
    Abstract: A method for generalizing an algorithm configured to synthesize a diagonal product of Pauli rotations to synthesize a product of Pauli rotations comprising X, Y and Z rotations, the method comprising: Providing a table of p number of rows and m number of columns, where p is a number of qubits and m a number of rotations in the quantum circuit, and where the table comprises X, Y, Z or I entry corresponding to the respective rotations of the qbits; Determining a pivot row, and recursively, until all rotations of the product of Pauli rotations are 1-qubit rotations: Determine a target row, Conjugate the target row with the pivot row by insertion of predetermined quantum gates on the qubits corresponding to the target row and/or pivot row by calling, at each recursive call, entries of the same type of the pivot row and by always calling first the identity entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: BULL SAS
    Inventors: Simon Martiel, Timothée Goubault de Brugière
  • Patent number: 12113181
    Abstract: A battery cell. The battery cell incluedes a first terminal contact and a second terminal contact, an energy storage unit, a first transistor, a sensor system that is set up to acquire a state parameter of the battery cell, and a control circuit. A first pole of the energy storage unit is coupled to the first terminal contact, and a second pole of the energy storage unit is coupled to the second terminal contact. The first transistor is connected between the first terminal contact and the second terminal contact in series with the energy storage unit. The he control circuit is set up to control a switching process of the first transistor, the control circuit controlling the first transistor based on the acquired state parameter in order to control a charge current or a discharge current of the energy storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Walter Von Emden, Joachim Joos, Johannes Grabowski
  • Patent number: 12106032
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for port generation for a circuit design based on layout connectivity information, which can be used as part of an automatic or a semi-automatic process of an electronic design automation (EDA) system. For instance, various embodiments access connectivity information for one or more networks of a circuit design, and use the connectivity information to identify pins of signal networks as positive connections for ports, and geometric shapes on references networks as candidates for negative connections for ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Prikhodko, Johannes Grad, Shritam Mohanty, Patrick Peiqi Ho
  • Patent number: 12100660
    Abstract: A system and method for creating layout for standard cells are described. In various implementations, a semiconductor fabrication process (or process) forms a power signal route in a same metal zero track reserved for power rails. The process forms a contact layer with inserted spacing underneath the power signal route. Along the track, this contact layer has physical contact with the power signal route with a first distance greater than a width of any signal route in any metal layer orthogonal to the power signal route, and has no physical contact with the power signal route with a second distance greater than the width. One or more signal routes in the local interconnect layer are routed through this spacing. Without this spacing, signals would be routed through this area using the metal one layer, which increases signal congestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Partha Pratim Ghosh, Pratap Kumar Das, Prasanth M
  • Patent number: 12093630
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating of a semiconductor device. The method includes receiving a first layout including patterns for the fabrication of the semiconductor device, performing machine learning-based process proximity correction (PPC) based on features of the patterns of the first layout to generate a second layout, and performing optical proximity correction (OPC) on the second layout to generate a third layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sooyong Lee, Jeeyong Lee, Jaeho Jeong
  • Patent number: 12088127
    Abstract: A circuit system including a first IC chip arranged in a first voltage region on a circuit board, and a second IC chip arranged in a second voltage region on the circuit board, each of the first IC chip and the second IC chip including a data communication unit to wirelessly transmit/receive data and a power transmission/reception unit to wirelessly transmit/receive power. The first IC chip and the second IC chip wirelessly transfer data and power to each other in an insulated state between the first voltage region and the second voltage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sol Ji Yoo
  • Patent number: 12086686
    Abstract: A method, system and product comprising: obtaining a gate-level representation of a quantum circuit, wherein the gate-level representation comprises a set of quantum gates defining operations on a set of qubits, wherein the gate-level representation comprises a gate-level implementation of a functional block of a functional-level representation of the quantum circuit, wherein the functional block defines an operation of the quantum circuit over at least two cycles; obtaining metadata from a functional-level processing component, wherein the metadata comprise an artifact associated with the gate-level implementation of the functional block; and compiling the gate-level representation of the quantum circuit, wherein said compiling is performed based on the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: CLASSIQ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Amir Naveh, Shmuel Ur, Yehuda Naveh, Ofek Kirzner, Ravid Alon, Tal Goren, Nir Minerbi
  • Patent number: 12074298
    Abstract: A multi-level power cell pack switching circuitry having a plurality of first level cell circuits, and additional plurality of cell circuits of consecutively progressing levels, with switching and control configured to facilitate dynamically changing serial and/or parallel connections between cells and cell circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: EVChip Energy Ltd.
    Inventors: Boaz Musafia, Alon Medina
  • Patent number: 12071020
    Abstract: This invention enables Electric Vehicle Service Equipments to control external electrical loads, such as water heaters. The parallel electric energy demand of the external load augments the remotely controllable energy demand for charging the vehicle creating a larger controllable demand than for charging the vehicle only. This larger demand is useful in responding to requests for ancillary service from the grid and can increase the revenue for regulation services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NETZERO V2G TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Paul Harriman Kydd
  • Patent number: 12067339
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for integrated circuit routing is described. The computer-implemented method comprising receiving a description of interconnected terminals of an integrated circuit with a wiring route electrically coupling the interconnected terminals and configuring a simulated environment defined via a plurality of voxels based on the description. The individual voxels included in the plurality of voxels each correspond to a spatial representation for a corresponding region of a layout associated with the integrated circuit. The computer-implemented method further includes determining local contributions of the individual voxels to a characteristic metric of the integrated circuit based on an electromagnetic simulation of the integrated circuit and revising the wiring route based on the local contributions of the individual voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Raj Apte, Zhigang Pan, Dino Ruic, Cyrus Behroozi
  • Patent number: 12061853
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein refer to a device having an integrated circuit with multiple tiers including a first tier and a second tier that are arranged vertically in a stacked configuration. The first tier may have first functional components, and the second tier may have second functional components. The device may have a three-dimensional (3D) connection within the first tier that allows for synchronous signaling between the first functional components and the second functional components for reducing latency between the multiple tiers including the first tier and the second tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Rainer Herberholz, Supreet Jeloka