As design nodes drop below 45nm, design rules are exploding in number and complexity, making design rule checking (DRC) harder and lengthier. What we have observed across the industry is that the ...

To make sense of what’s been scanned, says Adil Shafi, president of Brighton, Mich.-based Shafi Inc. (www.shafiinc.com), a software-solutions value-added supplier to Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Co.

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. IC physical verification (i.e., design rule checking or “DRC”) used to be easy. In the good old days, you could run some ...

The software, called PatMax, locates features despite changes in image angle, size, rotation, and appearance. Boasting up to 10 times more accuracy than other pattern-matching technologies, the ...