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Silicon Photonics Verification: A Light in the Tunnel

Silicon Photonics Verification: A Light in the Tunnel

By Omar El-Sewefy – Mentor, A Siemens Business Do silicon photonics designs need new verification tools? Turns out, expanding established…

Standing on the corner, waiting for my layout to load…

Standing on the corner, waiting for my layout to load…

By Dennis Joseph – Mentor, A Siemens Business Ever had this happen? You start loading your GDS layout and go…

Customizing a Calibre DRC HTML Report

Customizing a Calibre DRC HTML Report

Love the DRC HTML report you can generate with a push of a button from Calibre interface tools, but wish…

P&R Designers— How to quickly analyze and debug signoff DRC errors in P&R, using the Calibre RVE interface

P&R Designers— How to quickly analyze and debug signoff DRC errors in P&R, using the Calibre RVE interface

Want to quickly analyze and debug signoff DRC errors in P&R? The Calibre RVE multi-viewer function lets you sync multiple…

IC designers: find your focus and priorities during DRC debug

IC designers: find your focus and priorities during DRC debug

By Srinivas Velivala – Mentor, A Siemens Business Layout design verification gets exponentially harder with each new process technology node….

Highlights from SPIE – Successes and advancements over the past year

Highlights from SPIE – Successes and advancements over the past year

By Gandharv Bhatara – Mentor, A Siemens Business At the 43rd SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose that ran from…

Calibre PERC electrical reliability verification – why you need it at every node

Calibre PERC electrical reliability verification – why you need it at every node

By Juan C. Rey, Vice President of Engineering, Calibre – Mentor, A Siemens Business If you’re not performing electrical reliability…

Watch & Learn: Reducing Time-to-Support

Watch & Learn: Reducing Time-to-Support

By Srinivas Velivala – Mentor, A Siemens Business If you’re a chip designer or a CAD person trying to figure…

Simplify and speed up early floorplan verification with incremental interface DRC

Simplify and speed up early floorplan verification with incremental interface DRC

By James Paris – Mentor, A Siemens Business In early floorplan verification, incomplete blocks produce numerous interface errors. Incremental interface…