Business Wire

Mentor Graphics Adds Major New Design Rule Checking Product to HyperLynx Suite

WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced the release of a major new product in the HyperLynx® suite, the market-leading, high-speed analysis ...
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 ...
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.
Electronic Design

Layout Software’s Hierarchical DRC Propels Pre-Fab Verification

Version 10 of L-Edit Pro lets mixed-signal IC, MEMS, and integrated-optical-device designers increase design verification speed and analyze all-angle geometry prior to fabrication. The layout and ...
EDN

Thousand design rules, million-dollar masks

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, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Let’s Do The (IC Design) Time Warp Again

For the most part, we’ve all been doing integrated circuit (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) layout the same way for decades. Designers put together the design, be it intellectual property (IP), block, or ...