Electronic Design

Signoff Evolves From Design-Rule Checking To Yield Analysis

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 ...
Electronic Design

Free Design Rule Checker Focuses on PCB Designs

Mentor, a Siemens business, is into a wide range of software, from real-time operating systems (RTOSs) to chip-design tools. Also in the mix is printed-circuit-board (PCB) design software. Quite a bit ...
Business Wire

Aldec Sets a New Paradigm with a Single Platform for Design Rule Checking and Clock Domain Crossing Verification for FPGA and ASIC Designs

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc. announced today the latest release of its mixed-language Design Rule Checking (DRC) and Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) verification platform, ALINT-PRO™ 2017 ...
EDN

New error comparison scheme proposed for design rule checking flows

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Managing Complexity: Evolving Approaches To Design Rule Checking In Modern IC Design

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.