IL200641A

System and method for circuit design scaling

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35 claims: 4 independent, 31 dependent

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    IBM CORPORATION 200641/2 What is claimed is:1. A method for scaling a circuit design to a new technology, comprising: designating a first set of components including design scaled elements stored in a computer storage medium having a designed scaling in two dimensions to render the first set of components inactive for scaling of a second set of components stored in a computer storage medium, the second set of components, including pitch-matched circuits;scaling the second set of components;designating the second set of components to render the second set of components inactive for scaling of the first set of components;scaling the first set of components in accordance with a plurality of scale factors including: scaling the design scaled elements in accordance with reference scale factors;and scaling other components in the first set of components in accordance with one of the reference scale factors.
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    A computer program product for scaling a circuit design to a new technology comprising a computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of:designating a first set of components including design scaled elements having a designed scaling in two dimensions to render the first set of components inactive for scaling of a second set of components, the second set of components, including pitch-matched circuits;scaling the second set of components;designating the second set of components to render the second set of components inactive for scaling of the first set of components;scaling the first set of components in accordance with a plurality of scale factors including: scaling the design scaled elements in accordance with reference scale factors;and scaling other components in the first set of components in accordance with one of the reference scale factors.
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    A method for converting between technologies, comprising:copying cells of a design into a new library stored in a computer storage medium for a new technology;providing scale factors for pitch-matched circuits;using multiple scale factors, converting leaf level cells of the design into the new technology based upon the new library stored in the computer storage medium;black boxing a memory cell and already converted leaf level cells to scale other cells;scaling the memory cell in accordance with the new library stored in the computer storage medium;and updating other features of the design.
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    A computer program product for converting between technologies comprising a computer useable medium including a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to 25 IBM CORPORATION 200641/2 perform the steps of:copying cells of a design into a new library for a new technology;providing scale factors for pitch-matched circuits;using multiple scale factors, converting leaf level cells of the design into the new technology based upon the new library;black boxing a memory cell and already converted leaf level cells to scale other cells;scaling the memory cell in accordance with the new library;and updating other features of the design.