ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,817, issued on July 8, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).
"Pcell verification" was invented by Alain F. Loiseau (Williston, Vt.), Romain H. A. Feuillette (Williston, Vt.) and Mujahid Muhammad (Essex Junction, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process design kit (PDK) is supplied to a layout design tool. The PDK includes parameterized cells (Pcells) adapted to cause the layout design tool to automatically add labels to device layouts in the graphic design system (GDS) file that is being created by the layout design tool. Each corresponding label lists parameters used when creating the corresponding device layou...