US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Jan. 28 for "Layout context-based cell timing characterization" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,811, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Layout context-based cell timing characterization" was invented by Zhe-Wei Jiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan), Sung-Yen Yeh (Pingtung County, Taiwan) and Li Chung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by at least one processor includes the following steps: generating a layout of an integrated circuit (IC), the layout comprising a cell and a layout context in a vicinity of the cell; receiving from a library a set of context groups and a set of timing tables, wherein eac...