Flint Yoder

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Flint Yoder is a technical marketing engineer for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor, a Siemens Business. His work focuses on the development and enhancement of circuit verification technologies and tools. Yoder received a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer engineering from Oregon State University.

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Earlier Is Better In Latch-Up Detection

By Flint Yoder - 13 Feb, 2020 - Comments: 1

Physical verification is an essential step in integrated circuit (IC) design verification. Foundries provide design rule manuals that specify the precise physical requirements needed to ensure the design can be correctly manufactured, and the verification team runs the layout through checks based on those rules to ensure compliance. However, ensuring that a design can be manufactured does not g... » read more

Body Bias: What It Is, And Why You Should Care

By Flint Yoder - 12 Oct, 2017 - Comments: 1

In case you hadn’t noticed, the use of integrated circuits (ICs) has exploded over the past decade. From the cheapest novelty toy to automobiles to implanted medical devices, it seems like everything we touch has an electronic component in it somewhere. Not surprisingly, that growth has brought with it a vastly expanded number and variety of IC design requirements that design companies must s... » read more