Circuit Verification

Circuit Verification involves several essential steps in the design process that will help identify potential circuit or design errors as well as extract the necessary data for downstream circuit simulation. During this step, layout is analyzed and compared vs. the schematic to ensure design integrity. Second, the design is analyzed for short-term and long-term electrical failures and, if found, those are presented to the designer for fixing. And finally, a detailed silicon model is constructed with intentional device, advanced parameters, and parasitic information into a format that consumed by a downstream simulator so that designers can reliably determine if their design is meeting electrical specifications (timing, power, etc.)

Products:

Calibre PERC – Industry’s only programmable electrical rule checking (PERC) tool designed to address advanced verification requirements to en¬sure optimal design yield and improve reliability.

Calibre nmLVS – Industry standard physical verification tool for layout versus schematic.

Calibre xRC – High performance, high accuracy parasitic extraction engine that is integrated with Calibre nmLVS to deliver a silicon model containing all the necessary elements required for circuit simulation.

Calibre xL – Self and Mutual parasitic inductance engine that has the accuracy necessary for analog/RF applicaitons as well as the capacity required for digital blocks. Integrated with xRC to offer customers an R,L,C solution for parasitic extraction.