{"id":868,"date":"2016-04-18T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/calibre\/?p=868"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:17:21","slug":"colorless-vs-colored-double-patterning-design-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/2016\/04\/18\/colorless-vs-colored-double-patterning-design-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorless vs. Colored Double-Patterning Design Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Abercrombie, Mentor Graphics<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you know which double patterning flow to use?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/DA_Video-Banner.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/DA_Video-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"DA_Video Banner\" width=\"974\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this short video, David Abercrombie explains the differences between colored and colorless DP flows, why you might use one vs. the other, and the options and potential pitfalls of each approach. With this understanding, design and verification teams will be better equipped to work efficiently within any of the DP design flows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/ic_nanometer_design\/multimedia\/overview\/colorless-vs-colored-double-patterning-design-flows-12bbd065-be48-4a86-8f20-5156f0f73862\/?cmpid=10522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linkd.in\/1fZ4vYq\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-637 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-637\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/LinkedIn-Button.jpg\" alt=\"LinkedIn Button\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Abercrombie, Mentor Graphics How do you know which double patterning flow to use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[312,325],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ic-design","tag-multi-patterning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/calibre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}