US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on June 24 for "Context-based integrated-circuit model for efficient electrical rule checking (ERC)" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,159, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Context-based integrated-circuit model for efficient electrical rule checking (ERC)" was invented by Israel Albert Yankelovich (Hinnanit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking electrical rules in a design of a circuit including transistors connected by nodes, includes defining a hierarchical database including (i) a root representing the circuit, and (ii) instances of context-cells representing design entities and including node-ports that connect the design entities. Electrical properties of the node-ports are propagated from...