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 ...
Business Wire

Mentor Graphics Adds Major New Design Rule Checking Product to HyperLynx Suite

WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced the release of a major new product in the HyperLynx® suite, the market-leading, high-speed analysis ...
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

Earlier SoC Design Exploration And Verification Gets Better Designs To Tapeout Faster

Between the complexity of advanced node design verification and the competition to be first to the market, system-on-chip (SoC) designers no longer have the luxury of waiting until each sub-block of a ...
Electronic Design

Rule Checker Takes RTL Analysis Into The Physical Realm

At one time, the relationship between logic designers and physical implementation specialists was simpler. Front-end designers had long been accustomed to providing their ASIC vendors with a ...