Electronic Design

Signoff Evolves From Design-Rule Checking To Yield Analysis

IC designers are a lucky bunch. Through many years of semiconductor process evolution, the impact of manufacturing limitations and variations on layout could be encapsulated in relatively simple ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Managing Complexity: Evolving Approaches To Design Rule Checking In Modern IC Design

As integrated circuit (IC) designs have grown in complexity, scale and speed requirements, design rule checking (DRC) has evolved from a routine step into a critical pillar of successful tapeouts.
Semiconductor Engineering

Achieve Dramatic Productivity And Turnaround Time Improvements In Early Design Electrical Rule Checking

Early-stage layout vs. schematic (LVS) and circuit verification typically return large numbers of connectivity errors, which can be a critical bottleneck for both LVS and physical verification flows ...
Nature

Hotspot Detection and Machine Learning in VLSI Design

Advances in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design have increasingly relied on machine learning (ML) techniques to optimise performance, reduce manufacturing turnaround times and ensure high ...
Electronic Design

Design-Rule Checker Sports Foundry Compatibility

Advances in design checking capability, including foundry-compatible design-rule checking (DRC) and background DRC, are among the features of HiPer Verify, the first tool in a line of IC layout and ...