Calibre nmDRC

Overview

Calibre® nmDRC is the solution to the physical verification challenges of nanometer design. Calibre nmDRC, with the new Hyperscaling processing architecture, produces best-in-class DRC run times with scalability to 100 CPUs. Full integration to popular layout environments and direct read capability allow designers to invoke DRC and debug results seamlessly within their design flow. Calibre nmDRC leverages the Calibre nm Platform to provide model-based verification and analysis, and visualization to guide the designer to the errors that truly impact yield. It is integrated with an innovative incremental verification and dynamic results viewing/debugging environment to further reduce DRC cycle time and dramatically improve designer productivity.

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Collateral

Datasheet: Calibre nmDRC (pdf, 483kb)

Customer Results: nmDRC Hyperscaling Results View Results

Evaluation Software

Key Benefits

Calibre DRC is the industry standard with over 900 customers since 1996. Calibre DRC is currently used at all Tier 1 foundries, majority of the top IDMs, and more than 500 fabless companies.

Best-in-Class Physical Verification Productivity: Hyperscaling provides superior DRC run time and CPU scalability. Dramatic performance improvement without additional hardware
Revolutionary Parallel Debugging Environment: Speeds identification, analysis and correction of violations Faster
Time to Yield: Model-based verification, analysis, and visualization guide the designer to the errors that truly impact yield
Zero Risk Performance, Investment, and Quality: Straight drop-in to existing DRC flows, leveraging over 3.5 million lines of SVRF code from 250nm to 45nm process nodes
Protects customer investment in SMP and distributed computing hardware, flow infrastructure, training, and rule decks
Superior support quality: the only 5-Star support in EDA

Online Events

Revolutionizing DRC: Calibre nmDRC

At 90 nm and below, the dramatic increase in the number and complexity of DRC rules is taking a toll on DRC cycle time: from first-pass through tape-out clean. Mentor Graphics has a soluion - Calibre nmDRC. Please view and learn more about the revolutionary changes that transformed Calbire DRC into Calibre nmDRC.

From DRC Clean to DFM Optimized

This online seminar covers how you can benefit from the latest in Calibre physical verification and design for manufacturing technologies. From a history of DRC and LVS to upcoming trends DFM and nanometer silicon modeling, this seminar will show views how the Calibre tool suite is continuing to lead the way

This seminar also discusses the evolution of the Calibre engine and how our integration with all major 3rd party database formats enables design innovation.

Reducing Calibre DRC Runtimes Through Scaling

You're familiar with Calibre and it's capabilities, but are you truly getting the most out of the tool? Watch this online seminar to gain valuable insights on how to use the current functionality of Calibre to address the performance and capacity challenges of today's complex designs.