IC Design and Circuit Design Verification

The Most Comprehensive IC Implementation
Environment Available

Mentor Graphics offers the most comprehensive IC implementation environment available today. Our solution combines the ground-breaking Olympus-SoC™ place-and-route system, the industry-standard Calibre® physical verification and design-for-manufacturing product suite, and our award-winning integrated platform. These industry-leading products provide a comprehensive “Design-to-Silicon” solution.

Hands-on Learning: Calibre Verification Workshop

Learn how to leverage the superior performance and capacity of the Calibre design-to-silicon platform, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to address the complex handoff between design and manufacturing. Calibre Design-to-Silicon Platform Workshop

Manufacturing Variability Solutions

Our tools extend across the entire physical implementation lifecycle, starting with cell library development, and continuing through place and route, physical verification, layout optimization, mask preparation, testing and failure analysis. Manufacturing Variability Solutions

Olympus SoC

Olympus-SoC™ place-and-route system wins the 2009 DesignVision Award at DesignCon 2009. Learn more about Olympus-SoC

The Calibre Physical Verification Platform

Calibre is the overwhelming market share leader and industry standard for IC physical verification. Over the last two years, Calibre’s average DRC runtime has improved by a factor of five, while memory requirements have been cut in half. Learn More

The Calibre DFM Platform

The Calibre platform provides a full complement of model-based Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) solutions, including critical area analysis tools, litho-friendly design tools, and CMP or “planarity” tools. Learn More

Customer Success

"Our investment in a new methodology encompassing full mixed-signal and RF verification using the Mentor simulation suite paid off immediately. For the first time we were able to completely verify this next-generation wireless chip prior to manufacturing." - Morten Kroman, VP Research and Development, Widex Learn More

IC Design Tools

Olympus Place-and-Route System

Mentor's IC implementation system, Olympus-SoC, delivers innovative technologies for fast and high-quality design closure at advanced process nodes.

AMS Design, Verification and Layout

Mentor delivers a set of AMS design tools built on the ICStudio platform to address design, verification and layout in an efficient, integrated way.

Calibre DFM Platform

Building on our powerful, production-proven Hyperscaling architecture, Calibre delivers the broadest, most accurate, and best performing DFM solutions in the industry.

Calibre IC Verification Platform

Mentor's IC verification and sign-off includes traditional rule-based physical verification, parasitic extraction, and automated technologies that help improve yield.

Techpubs and Resources

IC Design Techpubs

Implementation-Quality Prototyping with Olympus-SoC: Accelerating Design Closure for Advanced ICs

Techpub:  The growing complexity of today’s ICs and tight market schedules are driving a demand for more powerful solutions for design prototyping. Prototyping helps designers determine the feasibility... View Techpub

Critical Feature Analysis as Golden Path to DFM Closure

Techpub:  This paper discusses the features implemented in a Design for Manufacturability (DFM) checker for Critical Feature Analysis of Very Deep Sub-Micron (VDSM) layout designs. This checker leverages... View Techpub

TrustMe-ViP: A Virtual RF System Platform Project for TPD

Techpub:  Shrinking feature sizes and advanced fabrication technologies enable IC designers to integrate more functionality onto a single chip (SoC: System on Chip), in particular in the Trusted... View Techpub

Foundry Partners

Mentor Graphics has teamed up with the world's top foundries to jointly develop and qualify Calibre DRC, LVS, and PEX rule files. These rule files encompass foundry standards and are available directly from the foundry. Foundry Partners

Consulting Services

Customized solutions to technical challenges on real projects with real schedules. By helping customers successfully integrate Mentor technologies and methodologies into their work flows, we help ensure they meet their design and business objectives. Mentor Consulting

Customer Success

"Calibre offers a unique combination of performance, accuracy, and capability allowing us to implement an optimal recipe for our 0.095 micron process. Calibre is already in use with our 0.180 and 0.150 micron technologies, and NEC is aggressively moving forward with advanced semiconductor processes. Calibre is a key enabler in accelerating this schedule."
Dr. Kazuhiko Takamizawa, Senior Manager of System LSI Design Engineering Division. Customer Quotes

Customer Success

"STMicroelectronics is a leader in delivering a complete CMOS 32nm design solution to our customers that optimizes design productivity for low power designs without compromising the performance, quality or the silicon correlation. To achieve this goal, we have built a reliable ecosystem with our long term partner, Mentor. We worked together to develop a robust solution for the design and characterization of our libraries for our worldwide design teams," said Gérard Mas, CMOS Libraries Group Director of the Technology Research and Development group at STMicroelectronics.
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From the Blogs

How to MV in 10 easy steps (really over simplified backend flow)

The Power Play

Step 0 Commitment – Are you really sure you want to MV? Are you positive that Multi-Vt & Clock gating would not help with your power budgets? Proceed to step1 with caution only if you really must. Step…View Blog Post

Pattern Matching Might Solve World Hunger

Michael White's Blog

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…View Blog Post

News & Press

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