FAILURE ANALYSIS PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, FAILURE ANALYSIS METHOD, AND FAILURE ANALYSIS DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve reliability of a semiconductor integrated circuit and shortening its manufacturing period of time.;SOLUTION: Failure analysis device 1100 extracts a partial path containing a failure part from among paths in a circuit to be analyzed by a partial path extraction section 1101, then detects an expansion path from a circuit element at a front stage of a start point of the extracted partial path via the partial path to a circuit element at a rear stage of an end point of the partial path by a path detection section 1102, extracts the shortest expansion path from among a group of the expansion paths by an expansion path extraction section 1103, determines whether the path length of the expansion path is longer than a prescribed reference length by a determination section 1104, and determines the expansion path as a path to be used in failure simulation by a decision section on the basis of the decision results determined by the determination section 1104.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT