place and route

January 27, 2022
Janet Attar is Product Marketing Manager at Siemens EDA responsible for Aprisa, Siemens’ place and route solution. She has over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry supporting various EDA tools in the digital space, including synthesis, place and route, signoff, and verification. Prior to Siemens, Janet was an Applications Engineer for Cadence Design Systems and a Physical Design Engineer for International Rectifier (now Infineon Technologies).

Aim for power first for best place-and-route results

The strategy of designing for best power rather than for best timing in place-and-route delivers better results all around.
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September 13, 2021
Swathi Rangarajan is a principal product engineer in the Calibre Design Solutions division of Siemens Digital Industries Software, supporting the Calibre RealTime platform. She focuses on in-design sign-off Calibre DRC checking in custom and digital design tools. Before joining Siemens, Swathi was an application engineer focusing on custom and digital design tool suites. Swathi received her BS in electronics and communication engineering from India, and her MS in engineering from San Jose State University

Hit your tapeout schedules with in-design signoff DRC

Delivering physical implementations at new process nodes is getting ever harder. Learn how to stay on track by checking work is rule-compliant as you go.
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May 31, 2021
Srinivas Velivala is a principal product manager with Calibre Design Solutions in Siemens EDA, a part of Siemens Digital Industries Software. His primary focus is the development of Calibre integration and interface tools and technologies. Before joining Siemens EDA, he designed high-density SRAM compilers. In addition to more than 12 years of design and product management experience, Srinivas holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

How you can decide what level of DRC you need when you need it

Using on-demand rule checks during place-and-route boosts efficiency and design quality.
September 21, 2020
filler cells featim sep20

P&R filler cell insertion slowing you down? Replace it

A physical verification-ready flow can speed project delivery by making your use of filler cells more efficient.
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June 9, 2020
place and route in design automated hotspot fixing

How to achieve fast, automated, sign-off verification of DFM hotspot fixes in P&R

A collaboration between GlobalFoundries and Mentor has resulted in an innovative in-design fixing strategy across markets such as IoT, mobile, RF, graphics and networking.
March 17, 2020
FeatIm P&R MaxLinear Mentor

How MaxLinear got faster signoff DRC while optimizing reliability and manufacturability

The RF and AMS specialist turned to design software that allowed it to run design checks during place and route.
January 25, 2019

A better way to manage error reporting at the chip and block levels

In a continuous-build design flow, at which level should your error markers be addressed?
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March 9, 2018
Saunder Peng is a Senior Application Engineer with Mentor, a Siemens Business. He received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York.

A better way to merge design files for physical verification

Still using custom layout or place and route tools here? Ditch that time-consuming practice for a real database merge flow.
October 3, 2016
Place and route beyond 10nm

How place and route is adapting to challenges below 10nm

Multi-patterning, finFETs and more are forcing more detailed overhauls of P&R software at each process node. We dig into some of the key new issues and how they are being addressed.
October 18, 2014
Soft-blocked floorplan

Placement optimizations push power and clock on Cortex-M7 project

Soft blocking to prevent cell spreading and other placement-optimization techniques helped improve power and clock speed on a Cortex-M7 test chip designed by ARM and Cadence.

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