Patents by Inventor Sung-Mo Steve Kang

Sung-Mo Steve Kang 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).

  • Methods, apparatus and computer program products for synthesizing integrated circuits with electrostatic discharge capability and connecting ground rules faults therein
    Patent number: 5796638
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for synthesizing and correcting ESD and EOS ground rules faults in integrated circuits generates a representation of a first functional circuit element (e.g., logic gate) connected to a representation of a first input/output (I/O) pad, via a representation of a first electrical path, and generates a representation of a first ESD circuit element connected to the representation of the first input/output pad via a representation of a second electrical path which may overlap a portion of the first electrical path. First and second sheet resistances (or quantities related thereto) of the first and second electrical paths, respectively, are determined and a length and/or width of the representation of at least one of the first and second electrical paths is adjusted if the first sheet resistance is greater than the second sheet resistance, so that the first sheet resistance is less than the second sheet resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Sung-Mo Steve Kang, Charvaka Duvvury, Carlos Hernando Diaz, Sridhar Ramaswamy