Samsung patents faster way to test chip designs using computer simulations
Samsung has patented a method to speed up computer simulations used in making semiconductor chips. The system organizes different design parameters into a specific order and groups similar tasks together to reduce the time needed to run the tests.
In the filing’s own words
A simulation method of a semiconductor process includes receiving first input data including values of a plurality of parameters received from the outside, setting a simulation using the plurality of parameters, improving the simulation by ordering the plurality of parameters, and executing the simulation by processing a job stored in a queue, wherein the optimizing includes generating a table with respect to the plurality of parameters, ordering the plurality of parameters based on the first input data, generating a job tree based on the plurality of ordered parameters, reconstructing the table based on the job tree, and generating the queue by storing the job in the queue based on the reconstructed table.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A simulation method of a semiconductor process, the simulation method comprising: receiving first input data comprising values of a plurality of parameters received from outside; setting a simulation using the plurality of parameters; improving the simulation by ordering the plurality of parameters; and executing the simulation by processing a job stored in a queue, wherein improving the simulation includes, generating an initial table with respect to the plurality of parameters ordered based on values of a first column among a plurality of columns of the initial table, reordering the plurality of parameters to generate a plurality of reordered parameters based on the first input data and on a similarity among different columns among the plurality of columns of the initial table, generating a job tree based on the plurality of reordered parameters, constructing a new table based on the job tree and on the initial table by merging cells in the initial table together, and generating the queue by storing the job in the queue based on the new table.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Method of semiconductor process simulation
- Patent number
- US12769905B2
- Application number
- 18534184
- Filed
- Dec 8, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 30/20 Physics & computingG06F 2119/18 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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