BENGALURU, India — With design rule checking becoming hugely complex in the deep sub-micron regime, there is a large run time for physical verification tools, for the number of design rules that must ...

IC designers are a lucky bunch. Through many years of semiconductor process evolution, the impact of manufacturing limitations and variations on layout could be encapsulated in relatively simple ...

As integrated circuit (IC) designs have grown in complexity, scale and speed requirements, design rule checking (DRC) has evolved from a routine step into a critical pillar of successful tapeouts.

The high cost of mask sets for nanometer processes creates considerable pressure to detect and correct errors as early in the physical-verification process as possible. To deliver successful, ...