US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Jan. 27 for "Using surrogate netlists for variation analysis of process variations" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,355, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Using surrogate netlists for variation analysis of process variations" was invented by Mohamed Baker Alawieh (Austin, Texas), Han-Sen Dai (Fremont, Calif.), Todd Gordon McKenzie (Austin, Texas) and Kishore Singhal (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, surrogate netlists are used instead of the actual netlist of interest (the target netlist) in order to speed up the runtime for variation analysis. It is desired to characterize the distribution of a circuit's response as a function of process variation, in a tail region of the distri...