Physical-verification cycle time increases significantly with each new process generation. Rule-deck complexity contributes considerably to this effect. The number of design rules grows rapidly as ...

Physical design engineers who create chips at the 45-nm node and beyond face a difficult task. The time-tested flows used at previous nodes are no longer viable to maintain productivity at today’s ...

Since 1990, Sun Microsystems has tracked factors affecting design complexity and productivity with an extensive set of indicators. Based on this information, Sun constructed and adopted a methodology ...