Design with Calibre

The industry-leading Calibre toolsuite provides physical verification (DRC), circuit verification (LVS, PEX), and reliability verification (PERC), as well as Calibre DFM optimization, to ensure IC designs will deliver the power, performance, and foundry yield today’s markets demand. Across all process nodes and design styles, innovative functionality ensures the Calibre toolsuite provides accurate, efficient, comprehensive IC verification while minimizing resources and tapeout schedules.

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The best things come in small packages

November 13, 2018

By John Ferguson – Mentor, A Siemens Business Do you know what the three challenges of HDAP design are? Are…

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Eye charts aren’t the answer to analog design reliability…

November 6, 2018

By Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz – Mentor, A Siemens Business Adding Calibre PERC automated reliability checks to the analog…

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Apples, oranges, pears, and lemons…comparing rule-based PEX to field solver results can be fruitless if you’re not careful

October 30, 2018

By Yousry ElMaghraby – Mentor, A Siemens Business Need to validate your rule-based PEX against a field solver solution? Better…

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It’s okay to be pushy!

October 23, 2018

By James Paris – Mentor, A Siemens Business Get the full benefit of parallel design implementation by pushing block-level contextual…

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Here’s a set of candidates everyone can support!

October 16, 2018

By Wael ElManhawy – Mentor, A Siemens Business Do you debug sub-20nm layouts? Want to make your life easier? Adopt…

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Shocking news! HDAPs need system-level electrical analysis to ensure performance

October 9, 2018

By Tarek Ramadan – Mentor, A Siemens Business As the use of HDAP grows, so does the need for post-layout…

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Fixing DRC errors in SADP designs at sign-off—Nobody said it was easy (but it can be easier…and much faster)

October 2, 2018

By David Abercrombie – Mentor, A Siemens Business SADP + DRC = headaches? Not any longer. GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Mentor collaborated…

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A look at what’s to come at OIP (hint: we’ll be there!)

September 28, 2018

The 2018 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara starts this Wednesday, October 3rd! As usual, Mentor…

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Fractures aren’t always a bad thing…especially in resistance extraction

September 24, 2018

By Hossam Sarhan – Mentor, A Siemens Business Did you know? IC designs that use unconventional metal structures with multiple…

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