A DESIGN ANALYSIS +WORKSTATION (DAW) FOR ANALYZING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

摘要

A design analysis workstation (220) for performing design analysis of integrated circuits provides facilities for extracting design and layout information from digital image-mosaics (238) captured during deconstruction of an integrated circuit (110). Each image-mosaic is displayed in at least one mosaic-view (262) as a background image that is overlaid with at least one annotation overlay (304). An engineer analyst creates annotation objects (322) on the annotation overlay based on information inferred concurrently from one or more image-mosaics. The annotation objects have properties that are editable. Concurrent display of a plurality of image-mosaics facilitates an understanding of interrelations between components on different layers..