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May 16, 2023
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Six reasons why you need better cross-platform validation of OASIS layout database generation

You must understand six comparison concerns and their effect on database equivalency. Adopt a solution with an in-depth object-based approach.
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April 28, 2022
James Paris is a senior product engineer with the Design to Silicon division of Siemens Digital Industries Software, supporting Calibre design interfaces. Prior to joining Siemens, he held roles in analog/mixed-signal physical design implementation and flow development for various IC design companies. James holds a BS in Computer-Aided Design Engineering and an MBA in Marketing.

Layout customization improves productivity in design and verification flows

What are the options and how do you balance overarching CAD requirements and personal preferences?
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March 3, 2022

Why comprehensive memory layout verification needs automated reliability checks

Because of the high analog content in memory designs, designers must understand how various effects impact reliability and performance.
October 21, 2021
Sherif Hany Mousa is a Principal Technologist in the Calibre Design Solutions division of Siemens EDA, a part of Siemens Digital Industries Software. Sherif previously held positions as a technical marketing engineer, analog quality assurance engineer, and IC design consultant for physical verification and analog/mixed signal applications. He has authored multiple publications and holds multiple patents in the fields of analog layout porting, hotspot detection and correction, and machine learning-assisted verification flows. Sherif is a senior IEEE member who holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Communication Engineering, and is currently engaged in Ph.D. research, focusing on circuit analysis.

Advanced symmetry verification is a thing of beauty

Innovation is extending the technique's power across areas such as context-aware layout, accounting for multi-patterning and implementing fill.
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August 25, 2020
Hend Wagieh is the senior product manager for Calibre circuit verification at Mentor, a Siemens Business. Her responsibilities include defining the product roadmap, business strategies, and associated new use models needed to grow the product line and increase market competitiveness for the Calibre nmLVS platform. Hend holds a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

Creating a new paradigm for circuit verification

How Calibre is evolving to address the challenges of LVS verification in early-stage design.
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June 11, 2019
Dennis Joseph is a technical marketing engineer supporting Calibre interfaces in the Design-to-Silicon division of Mentor, a Siemens business. His primary focus is the support and enhancement of the Calibre DESIGNrev layout viewer. Dennis received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.

Speed up design and verification with a smaller layout

How to remove or extract portions of a layout for easier, more focused and faster project delivery.
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May 31, 2018
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Layout-database file control: the missing link

The authors descirbe a new signature-based approach to resolving the content of layouts in GDSII, OASIS and other formats.
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December 22, 2017

Improve custom/AMS design and productivity with in-design DRC

In-design DRC is a technique that frees up engineers from many of the challenges of delivering AMS design under ever more complex design rules.
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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.
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.

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