ESD Design Rule Checking
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:
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