Patents by Inventor Gregory Northrop

Gregory Northrop has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Physical design system and method
    Publication number: 20060036977
    Abstract: A design system for designing complex integrated circuits (ICs), a method of IC design and program product therefor. A layout unit receives a circuit description representing portions in a grid and glyph format. A checking unit checks grid and glyph portions of the design. An elaboration unit generates a target layout from the checked design. A data prep unit prepares the target layout for mask making. A pattern caching unit selectively replaces portions of the design with previously cached results for improved design efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: John Cohn, James Culp, Ulrich Finkler, Fook-Luen Heng, Mark Lavin, Jin Lee, Lars Liebmann, Gregory Northrop, Nakgeuon Seong, Rama Singh, Leon Stok, Pieter Woltgens
  • Method of extracting properties of back end of line (BEOL) chip architecture
    Publication number: 20050086628
    Abstract: A method for analyzing circuit designs includes discretizing a design representation into pixel elements representative of a structure in the design and determining at least one property for each pixel element representing a portion of the design. Then, a response of the design is determined due to local properties across the design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Ronald Filippi, Giovanni Fiorenza, Xiao Liu, Conal Murray, Gregory Northrop, Thomas Shaw, Richard Wachnik, Mary Yvonne Wisniewski