smartfill Archives | Design with Calibre

Smoothing the path to manufacturing success begins with CMP simulation and fill optimization

May 11, 2022

By Ruben Ghulghazaryan, Davit Piliposyan, Zhengfang Liu, Chunshan Du, Jeff Wilson, Qijian Wan, Xinyi Hu, Zhixi Chen Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP)…

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2 MIN READ

SAFE is good. SAFE awards are even better…

June 1, 2021

By Calibre staff Safe is good, right? We all want to be safe, especially these days. But safe took on…

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2 MIN READ

ECO Fill Can Rescue Your SoC Tapeout Schedule

February 27, 2017

By Vikas Gupta and Bhavani Prasad, Mentor Graphics Automated ECO fill helps you refill and re-verify late-stage changes quickly, while…

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5 MIN READ

Established Technology Nodes: The Most Popular Kid at the Dance

September 27, 2016

By Michael White, Mentor Graphics Established nodes have a lot of dancing left to do! Learn how and why new…

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6 MIN READ

The Fill Ecosystem Evolves Again

August 25, 2015

By Jeff Wilson, Mentor Graphics At 20nm, new fill constraints drive up the time and complexity of the fill process….

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6 MIN READ

Balancing on the Color Density Tightrope

May 26, 2015

By David Abercrombie Potential pitfalls and available solutions.

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9 MIN READ