The secret to Calibre software quality – AnaCov, our in-house code coverage analysis tool

By Mustafa Naeem, Ahmed Tahoon, Omar Ragi, and Reem El-Adawi In the realm of software testing, accurately tracking and analyzing…

Shifting left with Calibre solutions: Enhancing IP design flow efficiency and design quality

By Terry Meeks Designing integrated circuits (ICs) is a multifaceted task that requires the integration of various components, including intellectual…

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…

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…

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?…

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

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

Introducing Calibre DesignEnhancer design-stage layout optimization!

By Jeff Wilson Introduced in early 2023, the Calibre DesignEnhancer tool is part of a growing suite of shift-left tools…

What’s all the fuss about shift left?

By Michael White and David Abercrombie In recent months, it seems as though everyone’s been talking about shift left as…