SAFE at home! Attending the Samsung SAFE forum in 2020

By Shelly Stalnaker – Mentor, A Siemens Business Samsung is going virtual with their 2020 SAFE forum, and Mentor, a…

Do you have a reliable automated waiver process for reliability verification?

By Dina Medhat – Mentor, A Siemens Business Design rule waivers Maybe a design rule that made sense at 22nm…

Using Calibre eqDRC Verification Methodology for Curved Layouts in Silicon Photonics

Using Calibre eqDRC Verification Methodology for Curved Layouts in Silicon Photonics

Calibre eqDRC enables SiP designers to accurately verify non-Manhattan shapes in SiP designs.

Transistor level ESD verification in large SoC designs

Transistor level ESD verification in large SoC designs

Dina Medhat, Mentor Graphics ESD protection is critical, but difficult to verify. Using voltage propagation and logic-aware checks can help

Design Rule Checking for Silicon Photonics

Design Rule Checking for Silicon Photonics

By Ruping Cao, Mentor Graphics Verifying silicon photonics designs requires new techniques, like equation-based DRC

Together At Last – Combining Netlist and Layout Data for Power-Aware Verification

Together At Last – Combining Netlist and Layout Data for Power-Aware Verification

By Beth Martin, with Sridhar Srinivasan, Yi-Ting Lee, and Frank Feng, Mentor Graphics Reliability checks on multiple-power-domain and mixed-signal designs…

Custom Layout Designers Need New Tools for New and Expanding Markets

Custom Layout Designers Need New Tools for New and Expanding Markets

By Srinivas Velivala, Mentor Graphics New debugging capabilities in Calibre RealTime can help shrink your time-to-tapeout while still ensuring high-quality…

Rule Deck Comparison Doesn’t Have to be Difficult

Rule Deck Comparison Doesn’t Have to be Difficult

By Saunder Peng Comparing results from different rule decks can be frustrating. Learn how you can use a chip finishing…

How to Use Pattern Matching to Improve Automatic Waiver Management

How to Use Pattern Matching to Improve Automatic Waiver Management

By John Ferguson and Jonathan Muirhead, Mentor Graphics Ensuring a known level of quality