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The industry-leading Calibre toolsuite provides physical verification (DRC), circuit verification (LVS, PEX), and reliability verification (PERC), as well as Calibre DFM optimization, to ensure IC designs will deliver the power, performance, and foundry yield today’s markets demand. Across all process nodes and design styles, innovative functionality ensures the Calibre toolsuite provides accurate, efficient, comprehensive IC verification while minimizing resources and tapeout schedules.

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Here’s a set of candidates everyone can support!

Here’s a set of candidates everyone can support!

October 16, 2018

By Wael ElManhawy – Mentor, A Siemens Business Do you debug sub-20nm layouts? Want to make your life easier? Adopt…

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Shocking news! HDAPs need system-level electrical analysis to ensure performance

Shocking news! HDAPs need system-level electrical analysis to ensure performance

October 9, 2018

By Tarek Ramadan – Mentor, A Siemens Business As the use of HDAP grows, so does the need for post-layout…

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Fixing DRC errors in SADP designs at sign-off—Nobody said it was easy (but it can be easier…and much faster)

Fixing DRC errors in SADP designs at sign-off—Nobody said it was easy (but it can be easier…and much faster)

October 2, 2018

By David Abercrombie – Mentor, A Siemens Business SADP + DRC = headaches? Not any longer.  GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Mentor collaborated…

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A look at what’s to come at OIP (hint: we’ll be there!)

A look at what’s to come at OIP (hint: we’ll be there!)

September 28, 2018

The 2018 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara starts this Wednesday, October 3rd! As usual, Mentor…

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Fractures aren’t always a bad thing…especially in resistance extraction

Fractures aren’t always a bad thing…especially in resistance extraction

September 24, 2018

By Hossam Sarhan – Mentor, A Siemens Business Did you know? IC designs that use unconventional metal structures with multiple…

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A brief history of the process design kit

A brief history of the process design kit

September 19, 2018

By John Ferguson – Mentor, A Siemens Business Do you really know what goes into a PDK? You might be…

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Get rid of pesky parasitics fast!

Get rid of pesky parasitics fast!

September 11, 2018

By Karen Chow and Claudia Relyea – Mentor, A Siemens Business Parasitics hampering the performance of your advanced node or…

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Do you trust your reliability baseline? Well, do you?

Do you trust your reliability baseline? Well, do you?

September 4, 2018

By Matthew Hogan – Mentor, A Siemens Business Custom reliability verification? No reliability verification? Foundry-qualified reliability rule decks provide an…

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Did you know the Calibre PERC platform has an automated waivers functionality?

Did you know the Calibre PERC platform has an automated waivers functionality?

August 20, 2018

By Dina Medhat – Mentor, A Siemens Business   Want to waive complex reliability conditions? Manage multiple users waiving results…

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