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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Back-annotating DFM enhancements to place & route tools

September 19, 2016

By James Paris, Mentor Graphics Back-annotation of DFM enhancements to P&R simplifies iterations as designers close timing and physical verification

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Device Pin-Specific Property Extraction For Layout Simulation

September 14, 2016

By Phil Brooks, Mentor Graphics Can you accurately extract device pin-specific properties without creating phantom nets?

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Synthesis of Design Rules and Patterns

August 31, 2016

By Michael White, Mentor Graphics Integrating pattern matching with design verification and process development yields benefits at all nodes. Learn…

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Electromigration protection requires accurate interconnect modeling

August 22, 2016

By Karen Chow, Mentor Graphics Electromigration can destroy an IC before its time. Are your designs safe?

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Leveraging Reliability-Focused Foundry Rule Decks

August 12, 2016

By Matthew Hogan, Mentor Graphics Using your foundry’s reliability rule deck early on lets you correct reliability issues while they…

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Pattern Matching In Test and Yield Analysis

August 1, 2016

By Jonathan Muirhead and Geir Eide, Mentor Graphics Analyzing fail data with pattern matching helps companies identify yield limiters faster…

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Reliability Scoring for the Automotive Market

July 18, 2016

By Jeff Wilson, Mentor Graphics Companies designing automotive electronics must understand how variability affects design quality and reliability.

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Not yet a fan of fan-out? Why you should be!

July 12, 2016

By John Ferguson, Mentor Graphics FO-WLP combines multiple die from heterogeneous processes into a compact package, and that’s a good…

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Interconnect Robustness Depends on Scaling for Reliability Analysis

June 29, 2016

By Matthew Hogan, Mentor Graphics Fast simulation and PEX are both crucial to interconnect robustness verification. Can your tools scale…

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