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28 Jan, 2010

Pattern Matching Might Solve World Hunger

Posted 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

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

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15 Jan, 2010

Stop Paying the DRC Waiver Productivity Tax

Posted 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

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Valor MSS PCB Manufacturing Systems Solutions

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Electrical & Wire Harness Design

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John Day (Posted 5/9/13)
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FPGA

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Open Stand & EDA Standardization
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Functional Verification

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Harry Foster (Posted 5/8/13)
Those nasty wire’s and reg’s in Verilog
Dave Rich (Posted 5/3/13)
Getting AMP’ed Up on the IEEE Low-Power Standard
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IC Design

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TSMC 28nm yield (SemiWiki)
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DAC 2011 is upon us!
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Mechanical Analysis

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PCB Design Software & Tools

PADS Tips and Tricks: Building a PCB Decal with Polar Patterns
Jim Martens (Posted 5/13/13)
Interactive Routing in the PADS ES Suite
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Schematic Capture in the PADS ES Suite video release
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System Modeling

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Vehicle System Design

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Aerospace and Military Solutions

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Accelerating ARM-based Design

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