tag: DRC

Enhancing Power Reliability Through Design-Stage Layout Optimization
By Jeff Wilson - 19 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

As integrated circuit (IC) designs continue to scale, the demand for efficient power management, performance optimization and reliable physical layout modification grows more critical. Meeting these power, performance and area (PPA) targets is essential for ensuring that IC designs operate effectively at advanced process nodes. One of the main challenges for design and verification engineers is... » read more

A Guide To Rigid-Flex PCB Design
By Gregory Beers - 18 Jul, 2024 - Comments: 0

In today’s electronics industry, compact, efficient, and versatile PCBs are in high demand. Rigid-flex technology allows engineers to design boards that bend and flex without compromising performance or reliability. Mastering rigid-flex PCB design can be challenging due to its unique requirements. Whether you're an experienced designer expanding your skills or new to the field, this ar... » read more

Package Assembly Design Kits: The Future Of Advanced Package Design
By Ruben Fuentes - 23 May, 2024 - Comments: 0

Why should there be an interest in Package Assembly Design Kits (PADK) today? For the most part, it is due to the advancement in the accumulation of files forming the PADK now offering a customized heterogeneous design experience that optimizes the device's intended package performance with complete connectivity verification, DRC, and assembly validation. Another primary reason is the ongoing f... » read more

A New Strategy For Successful Block/Chip Design-Stage Verification
By David Abercrombie - 28 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

Achieving efficiency in integrated circuit (IC) design while maintaining design quality is not just a goal, but a necessity. Designers constantly strive to strike a balance between ever-tightening time-to-market constraints and the finite resources at their disposal, while ensuring the quality of their designs remains uncompromised. Traditionally, IC design flows have been depicted as a linear ... » read more

Improving Semiconductor Yield Using Large Area Analysis
By Jacky Huang - 19 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

Design rule checking (DRC) is a technique used during chip design to ensure that a device can successfully be manufactured at high yield. Design rules are established based on the limits and variability of equipment and process technologies in use. DRC checking ensures that a design meets manufacturing requirements and will not result in a chip failure or DRC “violation.” Common DRC rules i... » read more

Successful 3D-IC Design, Verification, And Analysis Requires An Integrated Approach
By Siemens EDA - 30 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

3D-IC designs enable improvements in performance, power, footprint, and costs that cannot be attained in system-on-chip (SoC) and IC design. However, the leap from traditional SoC/IC design to 3D-IC designs brings not only new opportunities, but also new challenges. Siemens EDA provides multiple 3D-IC design analysis and verification functionalities that address the diverse needs of 3DIC des... » read more

Let’s Do The (IC Design) Time Warp Again
By John Ferguson - 26 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

For the most part, we’ve all been doing integrated circuit (IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) layout the same way for decades. Designers put together the design, be it intellectual property (IP), block, or full chip, then begin running physical verification. For design rule checking (DRC), this process consists of running all appropriate rule checks for the component on all available layouts. The ... » read more

Why Curvy Design Now? Less Change Than You Think And Manufacturable Today
By Jan Willis - 19 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

A curvilinear (curvy) chip, if magically made possible, would be smaller, faster, and use less power. Magic is no longer needed on the manufacturing side, as companies like Micron Technology are making photomasks with curvy shapes using state-of-the-art multi-beam mask writers today. Yet the entire chip-design infrastructure is based on the Manhattan assumption of 90-degree turns, even though i... » read more

A Shift Left Strategy Is One Part Of A Holistic Approach To IC Design Verification
By David Abercrombie - 28 Sep, 2023 - Comments: 0

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. –Aristotle A machine is nothing more than a collection of nuts, bolts, wheels, gears, wires, pipes, chains, and what have you. And yet, when they are all connected up properly, magic happens. Instead of a pile of parts, you have a car, or a dishwasher, or a nuclear reactor. The connections and interactions between all those parts turns the whole... » read more

Why Shift Left?
By Michael White - 24 Aug, 2023 - Comments: 0

As every integrated circuit (IC) design company knows, the faster a design can progress from implementation to signoff verification, the better the chances are of meeting tapeout schedules. Meeting tapeout schedules improves a company’s chances of reaching their market targets. But as companies create larger and more complex ICs and move to advanced process nodes, the challenge of achieving t... » read more

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