Patents by Inventor Rand Carawan

Rand Carawan 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).

  • Determining feasibility of IC edits
    Publication number: 20050273745
    Abstract: A computer method of analyzing an integrated circuit (“IC”) masked design data, comprising grouping into a cluster areas of layers preceding a target metal layer that are suitable for milling, deleting portions of the target metal layer that do not meet minimum tool spacing requirements to produce a modified metal layer, deleting portions of the modified metal layer that do not meet minimum design rule width requirements to produce a final metal layer, and comparing the final metal layer and the cluster to identify common areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: John Bach, Rand Carawan, Hemant Joshi, David Thomas