US 12,236,177 B2
Circuit design validation tool for radiation-hardened design
Lawrence James Gewax, Dallas, TX (US); and Timothy Paul Duryea, Dallas, TX (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/586,516.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/143,212, filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245314 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/33 (2020.01); G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 30/367 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 119/02 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/33 (2020.01) [G06F 30/327 (2020.01); G06F 30/367 (2020.01); G06F 30/398 (2020.01); G06F 2119/02 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for validating a circuit design, the method comprising:
providing a set of coded rules, each of the coded rules defining conditions for circuit cells to qualify the circuit design as being radiation-hardened;
accessing a circuit design netlist associated with the circuit design from a circuit design database;
evaluating each of the circuit cells in the circuit design netlist with respect to each of the coded rules; and
publishing a circuit evaluation report comprising an indication of failure of a set of the circuit cells with respect to one or more of the coded rules in response to the evaluation.