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Pattern Matching Might Solve World Hunger

Posted Jan 28, 2010, by Michael White

Design rule checking (DRC) or physical verification used to be easy. For example, run some 1-D width and spacing checks to ensure things will resolve and won’t short and you are good to go. These checks were simple to write, fast to run and understandable, and quick to debug. Today is a new world order, where none of these attributes are true anymore. An increasing number of checks are 2-D, very … Read More

Tags: IDM, IC Design, Pattern Matching, EDA, SoC, eqDRC, Calibre, Fabless, Physical Verification, Productivity, Foundries, Equation-Based DRC, PV, Sign-off, Fab-lite

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Stop Paying the DRC Waiver Productivity Tax

Posted Jan 15, 2010, by Michael White

Historically, design rule checking (DRC) was a black or white proposition—either you passed all your DRC’s or you fixed the errors until you did pass. Fast forward to today where much/most of the IP you use is from 3rd parties and/or your product has an increasing percentage of memory content and your design is never DRC clean at tape out. Your design team is now constantly waiving over and over and … Read More

Tags: Foundry, Foundries, IC Design, DRC, SVRF, EDA, Tax, Waiver, Calibre, Physical Verification, Fab-lite, Productivity, Fabless, Sign-off, eqDRC, SoC, Equation-Based DRC

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