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Design with Calibre

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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Tessent Solutions

Hierarchical DFT: How to Do More, More Quickly, with Fewer Resources

September 06, 2016

By Rick Fisette, Mentor Graphics Remove ATPG from the critical path to tapeout with hierarchical DFT plus test pattern retargeting...

By Tessent Solutions

Electronic Systems Design

The Simplest of Power Integrity Issues

September 06, 2016

By far, DC Drop issues are the simplest problems you can run into when designing a power distribution network or...

By Patrick Carrier

Design with Calibre

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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Tessent Solutions

What to Know about Today's Scan Diagnosis and Yield Analysis Technologies

August 23, 2016

By Geir Eide, Mentor Graphics What to know about today’s scan diagnosis and yield analysis technologies…

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Electronic Systems Design

Innovation Creating a New Breed of Self-Sufficient Design Engineers

August 22, 2016

When I introduced myself last year in The Future of PADS®, I was excited to talk about PADS Standard, Standard...

Design with Calibre

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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Electronic Systems Design

High current density - is it a problem?

August 19, 2016

A question I get all too often on power integrity results is whether or not a current density issue is...

By Patrick Carrier

Design with Calibre

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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