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Managing waivers in reliability verification

Reliability verification solutions provide rules that help designers find and debug issues such as electrostatic discharge (ESD), multi-power domain crossing checks, voltage-aware design rule checking (DRC), latch-up, and company-defined best practices. However, while debugging error results, a designer or ESD engineer may encounter conditions that justify waiving certain violations. For example: A chip uses a […]

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Slash test time by combining hierarchical DFT and channel sharing

Hierarchical DFT, in which DFT insertion and sign-off pattern generation is done at the block level, is now standard procedure for most large IC designs. In a hierarchical methodology, DFT work can start early, eliminating spikes in the workload towards tapeout, and reducing the compute resource requirements. The combination of hierarchical DFT and embedded deterministic […]