Physical design engineers who create chips at the 45-nm node and beyond face a difficult task. The time-tested flows used at previous nodes are no longer viable to maintain productivity at today’s ...

Since 1990, Sun Microsystems has tracked factors affecting design complexity and productivity with an extensive set of indicators. Based on this information, Sun constructed and adopted a methodology ...

Humanetics and Foretellix Bridge the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Test Flows for ADAS and ADS Joint Live Demonstration at AAA Northern California’s GoMentum Station is Planned for May 2021, ...

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Siemens. In the world of electronics, integrated circuits (IC) chips are the unseen powerhouse behind progress. Every leap—whether it’s smarter phones, ...

Pattern matching is best known for its use in detecting lithographic hotspots, but it’s also widely used across all physical verification flows, and has expanded into design-for-manufacturing (DFM) ...

Silicon photonics augments traditional electrical signals in integrated circuits (ICs) with light transmission to speed up data transfer and reduce power consumption. According to MarketsandMarkets, ...

In most design companies, the chip-level physical implementation teams responsible for design floorplanning in place and route (P&R) environments also manage top-level physical verification from the ...