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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…

Establishing a reliability baseline provides confidence and consistency

Establishing a reliability baseline provides confidence and consistency

By Matthew Hogan – Mentor, A Siemens Business Design companies must establish baseline robustness and reliability criteria throughout the entire…

Get to yield ramp faster…even with new design styles

Get to yield ramp faster…even with new design styles

By Wael Manhawy and Joe Kwan – Mentor, A Siemens Business Having trouble ramping yield for new, unproven design styles? Experiments…

HDAP connectivity verification—what’s your solution?

HDAP connectivity verification—what’s your solution?

By Tarek Ramadan – Mentor, A Siemens Business New HDAP designs like FO-WLP require package-level connectivity verification tools and processes….

What’s New in Multi-Patterning?

What’s New in Multi-Patterning?

If you work with multi-patterning technology, you know it is a constantly-evolving process. From the addition of new multi-patterning techniques…

Tiny Chips, Big Challenges: Full-Chip Electrical Reliability

Tiny Chips, Big Challenges: Full-Chip Electrical Reliability

Need to ensure your chip performs in the real world? The Calibre PERC reliability platform provides fast, accurate, verification for…

Can machine learning and neural networks accurately predict post-deposition profiles for CMP modeling?

Can machine learning and neural networks accurately predict post-deposition profiles for CMP modeling?

By Ruben Ghulghazaryan and Jeff Wilson – Mentor, A Siemens Business We experimented with machine learning and neural networks for…

Waiver headaches? We have a cure for that…

Waiver headaches? We have a cure for that…

By James Paris – Mentor, A Siemens Business Creating a standardized IP waivers database to deliver with physical IP libraries…

SRAM physical verification – Why does it have to be so hard? (Hint: it doesn’t)

SRAM physical verification – Why does it have to be so hard? (Hint: it doesn’t)

By James Paris and Elven Huang – Mentor, A Siemens Business Checking SRAM IP placements can be tricky, even for…