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Calibre nmDRC/nmLVS Update

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Duration:  1 Day
Pricing:  51500 YEN
Course Part Number: 237315

Description

Calibre continues to evolve, building on a strong industry-leading position, to provide ever-increasing capability to solve the most demanding physical verification tasks. The “Calibre nmDRC/nmLVS Update” class will acquaint you with many of the newest features introduced in recent Calibre releases. Detailed lectures along with step-by-step lab exercises will empower you to apply these powerful new tool features immediately, realizing the full benefit of Calibre’s latest enhancements.

You will learn how to

  • Employ many of the new Calibre Interactive Graphical User Interface features such as the display of layer derivation trees and direct entry of SVRF statements.
  • Use the Incremental DRC feature to fix and validate layout problems even before your complete DRC run is finished.
  • Perform accelerated verification of new versions of your designs, using the powerful dbdiff program to focus checking on changed areas only.
  • Apply many new Calibre RVE features such as histograms and dynamic results displays.
  • Invoke hierarchical cell analysis from within Calibre Interactive to identify cells that have the greatest impact on LVS run time.
  • Work with LVS runs that involve the use of device signature data for device recognition.
  • Apply enhanced short isolation techniques.

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Calibre software. Hands-on lab topics include:

  • Generating layer derivation trees in Calibre Interactive
  • Using Incremental DRC to validate layout fixes “on the fly”
  • Verifying layout differences using dbdiff
  • Applying advanced Calibre RVE features during DRC and LVS debugging
  • Using Calibre Interactive to automatically create hierarchical cell lists
  • Debugging device problems
  • Isolating layout shorts

Audience

IC Layout Engineers and Layout Verification specialists who are experienced users of Calibre nmDRC and Calibre nmLVS.

Prerequisites

  • Solid Calibre nmDRC/nmLVS experience or recent completion of the previous 3-day “Calibre nmDRC/LVS” course.
  • Knowledge of IC Layout techniques and procedures
  • Experience with an IC layout editing tool
  • Understanding of SPICE netlists
  • Familiarity with UNIX/Linux

Key Topics

  • Calibre Interactive layer derivation tree display
  • SVRF command entry in Calibre Interactive
  • Incremental DRC flows
  • Focused layout verification using dbdiff
  • New Calibre RVE features such as results table and histograms
  • Expanded short isolation features
  • Device signatures
  • Logic injection
  • Automatic hierarchical cell identification

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