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SAFE at home! Attending the Samsung SAFE forum in 2020

By Shelly Stalnaker – Mentor, A Siemens Business Samsung is going virtual with their 2020 SAFE forum, and Mentor, a…

Do you have a reliable automated waiver process for reliability verification?

By Dina Medhat – Mentor, A Siemens Business Design rule waivers Maybe a design rule that made sense at 22nm…

SAMP series finishes with SAMP cut mask decomposition techniques

By David Abercrombie and Rehab Kotb Ali – Mentor, A Siemens Business We’ve been writing about self-aligned multi-patterning (SAMP) topics…

Breaking it down…How interconnect segmentation helps resolve P2P resistance errors

Breaking it down…How interconnect segmentation helps resolve P2P resistance errors

By Slava Zhuchenya – Mentor, A Siemens Business Point-to-point (P2P) simulations find and report nets that exceed predefined resistance thresholds…

VLSI optimization—a bridge too far?

VLSI optimization—a bridge too far?

source: Andrew Shiva/CC BY-SA 4.0By Sherif Hany – Mentor, A Siemens Business Job without end. How about job done? Have…

A better, faster, smarter way to insert filler cells in P&R

A better, faster, smarter way to insert filler cells in P&R

By Fady Fouad, Jeff Wilson, Esraa Swillam – Mentor, A Siemens Business Filler cells—Those cells inserted by the P&R tool…

Early-stage design verification slowing down your schedules? Watch our on-demand web seminar for the solution

Early-stage design verification slowing down your schedules? Watch our on-demand web seminar for the solution

You’re integrating your design. Some blocks are incomplete. Others just have placeholders. But you can’t wait until every component is…

Can you picture your EDA in the cloud?

Can you picture your EDA in the cloud?

Moving electronic design automation (EDA) design verification to the cloud—we’ve talked about it and written about it, but sometimes you…

Five white papers that could change your life…

Five white papers that could change your life…

By Shelly Stalnaker – Mentor, A Siemens Business Someone once said to me, “You don’t have to be smart to…