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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Sanity check: Will automated fill back-annotation help?

October 25, 2023

By James Paris Hey there, custom integrated circuit (IC) design engineers! If you’re knee-deep in the world of IC design,…

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Streamlining semiconductor verification with the Calibre Interactive interface

October 17, 2023

By Slava Zhuchenya In the world of semiconductors, creating and verifying IC designs is no cakewalk. It’s a complex dance…

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IC designers: let’s talk about shift left strategies

September 28, 2023

By John Ferguson In the constantly evolving world of electronics, where demands are high for more powerful, efficient, and reliable…

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Transistor-level EMIR analysis from custom design tools? It’s all about flexibility!

September 20, 2023

By Roger Kang How do you run transistor-level electromigration and voltage drop (EMIR) analysis—command line or an interactive invocation GUI?…

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Save yourself the time—here’s a way for you to view native block instances from a full-chip context

September 14, 2023

By Ritu Walia Imagine this: You primarily work on the design of a sub-block of an application-specific layout design, or…

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Calibre PERC checks meet Calibre RVE default views: A match made in debugging heaven?

September 6, 2023

By Neel Natekar As technology node scaling continues, integrated circuit (IC) designers are facing increasing physical verification challenges due, in…

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A recap of Calibre at DAC 2023

August 29, 2023

DAC is back! At least was the feeling on the floor, judging by the number of attendees we talked to,…

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Updating a Calibre DesignEnhancer via insertion kit is fast and easy!

August 21, 2023

By Jimmy Tien The Calibre® DesignEnhancer Via use model provides an automated via insertion process based on foundry design rule…

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Optimize metal fill insertion while protecting critical nets and devices…automatically!

August 15, 2023

By Dina Medhat Context-aware physical verification (PV) is a relatively new addition to traditional PV flows, but it has quickly…

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