Siemens EDA Blogs

Siemens EDA’s mission is to help you engineer a smarter future faster. Read our latest blog posts to keep up to date on the latest tools, trends, methodologies and offerings in IC, advanced packaging and PCB systems electronics design, verification and manufacturing.

Why did Siemens EDA acquire Fractal Technologies?

We are very excited to announce Siemens EDA’s acquisition of Fractal Technologies last week, adding Crossfire to the Solido portfolio of IP verification and characterization tools, accelerated with machine...

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Turn IC verification challenge from a hard slog into a walk in the park by using static checks

By Neel Natekar As integrated circuits (ICs) grow in complexity, they create new challenges for IC verification flows and electronic...

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

A SAMPle of what you need to know about SAMP technology

By Calibre Design Staff Prior to the availability of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, multi-patterning provided the only workable yield solution...

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Realize Live + U2U: Side by Side

What a difference a year can make! Oh, we’re not referring to that virus that shifted the Earth on its...

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Addressing the Post-Layout Simulation Bottleneck for Analog Verification

Analog and mixed-signal designs are pervasive throughout the technology landscape today. The rapid growth in data expansion is driving an...

By Gregory Curtis

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Give me my space! Why high voltage and multiple power domain designs need automated context-aware spacing checks

By Sherif Hany and Abdellah Bakhali Regardless of which technology node they’re using, design houses that create high-voltage and multiple...

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

DFM: Still a really good thing to do!

By Simon Favre If you’re not using critical area analysis and design for manufacturing to improve your IC yield and...

By Calibre IC Design & Manufacturing

Producing and verifying 7/5/3nm IP Liberty models: the building blocks for leading-edge HPC, ML/AI and 5G designs

The first 5nm production chips have already been launched, such as Apple’s A14 Bionic, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, and Samsung’s Exynos...

Machine Learning Enabled High-Sigma Verification for Memory Design – Innovation to cure ‘Chip Memory Loss’

The Covid-19 pandemic has presented us with many challenges in this past year. Working from home has certainly changed my...

By Nebabie Kebebew