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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
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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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August 14, 2020
John Ferguson is the product management director for Calibre DRC applications at Mentor, a Siemens BusinessHe holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from McGill University, an M.Sc. in Applied Physics from the University of Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.

EDA innovation is the foundation of progress

For physical verification and beyond, each process node requires new thinking, new tools and greater performance.
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May 21, 2019
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Preparing for success at the next node with Calibre

How Mentor develops and works with partners to prepare each version of its Calibre DFM platform to be ready for the introduction of each new process node.
November 20, 2018
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Adding system-level, post-layout electrical analysis to HDAP design and verification

Adoption of high-density advanced packaging (HDAP) needs tools and supports to build designers' confidence in the emerging technology.
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October 16, 2018
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Reliability verification: It’s all about the baseline

How you can use the dedicated rule decks now being provided by foundries as the foundation for a reliability verification flow.
August 13, 2018
Dina Medhat is a Technical Lead for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor, a Siemens Business. She has held a variety of product and technical marketing roles at the company, and received her BS and MS degrees from Ain Shames University in Cairo, Egypt. She is currently a PhD student at Ain Shames University.

Managing waivers in reliability verification

Dina Medhat describes what you need to know about the types of waiver strategy that can be applied.
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September 14, 2017
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Silicon photonics moves out of the shadows

An alphabet soup of AI, HPC, 5G and the IoT has finally seeded creation of a design infrastructure for silicon photonics.
April 28, 2014

Protecting IP in a collaborative signoff environment

The encryption chain for today's highly collaborative designs needs to be managed with care.
June 1, 2012
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DAC 2012: 20(nm) questions

There's still debate over certain aspects of the 20nm node, but the main challenges are already being addressed. Expect to see foundries and vendors mark their turf at DAC.
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