Semiconductor Engineering

Managing Complexity: Evolving Approaches To Design Rule Checking In Modern IC Design

As integrated circuit (IC) designs have grown in complexity, scale and speed requirements, design rule checking (DRC) has evolved from a routine step into a critical pillar of successful tapeouts.
Electronic Design

Rule Checker Takes RTL Analysis Into The Physical Realm

At one time, the relationship between logic designers and physical implementation specialists was simpler. Front-end designers had long been accustomed to providing their ASIC vendors with a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Earlier SoC Design Exploration And Verification Gets Better Designs To Tapeout Faster

Between the complexity of advanced node design verification and the competition to be first to the market, system-on-chip (SoC) designers no longer have the luxury of waiting until each sub-block of a ...
Electronic Design

Formal Verification Moves Into Design Phase

Traditionally, formal verification is used after the fact for bug hunting or design-rule checking. It has yet to be applied up front, where it would affect design decisions at the RTL coding stage.