By Neel Natekar As technology node scaling continues, integrated circuit (IC) designers are facing increasing physical verification challenges due, in…
By Dina Medhat Context-aware physical verification (PV) is a relatively new addition to traditional PV flows, but it has quickly…
By Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz With the increasing complexity of design layouts and shorter tapeout cycles, waiting until signoff…
By Abdellah Bakhali If you’re not an electrostatic discharge (ESD) expert (and let’s face it, most of us aren’t), verifying…
By Hossam Sarhan Work smarter, not harder. Isn’t that what everyone is always telling you? Of course, it’s excellent advice,…
By Slava Zhuchenya So your net trace has too much parasitic resistance. Where is it coming from? You ran your…
By Hossam Sarhan With the growing complexity of system-on-chip designs and technology scaling, multiple power domains are needed to optimize…
By Mark Tawfik Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the discharge of static electrical current when two objects come into contact. One…
By Derong Yan As we move to advanced semiconductor process nodes, electrostatic discharge (ESD) issues have become more critical in…
