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ESD Design Rule Checking

Posted Aug 30, 2009, by Matthew Hogan

Verification of ESD structures and other protection circuits is often a time consuming and tedious task. How do you do it? Complex DRC rules? An assortment of specialized rule decks? Home-brew tools? Recently a colleague and I published a paper which used one of the Mentor tools (Calibre® PERC) to help with this ESD checking. If you’re interested, the paper is available on-line here: New Flow for … Read More

Tags: ESD, PERC, Calibre