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3DICs and the multi-physics challenge

By John Ferguson Design teams have known since, well, pretty much forever that mechanical stresses and temperature changes can affect…

Elevating user experience with UX maturity models

By Kirolos George and Reem El Adawi In today’s digital landscape, user experience (UX) plays a crucial role in the…

Inspiring the next generation of EDA engineers

As the semiconductor market grows, so does the need for qualified engineers throughout the semiconductor ecosystem. Of course, the supply…

How to extend DTCO for today’s competitive IC landscape

By Le Hong As semiconductor components continue to shrink, the challenges associated with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) increase….

Sanity check: Will automated fill back-annotation help?

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

Streamlining semiconductor verification with the Calibre Interactive interface

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

IC designers: let’s talk about shift left strategies

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

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

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

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

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