• not violate design rules; a process called design rule checking (DRC). DRC is a major step during physical verification signoff on the design, which also...
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  • Verification involves design rule check (DRC), layout versus schematic (LVS), XOR (exclusive OR), antenna checks and electrical rule check (ERC). DRC verifies...
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  • parameters PCells Verification checks Design Rule Checking Layout Versus Schematic Antenna and Electrical rule check Physical Extraction Technology data Layers...
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    series of checks in a process known as physical verification. The most common checks in this verification process are Design rule checking (DRC), Layout...
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  • links. Keysight ADS supports every step of the design process — schematic capture, layout, design rule checking, frequency-domain and time-domain circuit simulation...
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    Magic (software) (category Free computer-aided design software)
    rule error for most fabrication processes that is a common problem with object-based representations. Magic features real-time design rule checking,...
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  • ECAD, Inc. (category Electronic design automation companies)
    was an early vendor of electronic design automation software. The company was best known for its design rule checking product Dracula, but also produced...
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    generation of design documentation source-language debugging interactive design-rule checking and semantic analysis incremental compilation configuration management...
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    with effects of variation. Stricter design rules – Due to lithography and etch issues with scaling, design rule checking for layout has become increasingly...
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  • Research Corporation, a US-based defense contractor Design rule checking, area of electronic design automation Digital room correction, a process in the...
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    "source" shapes, which presented difficulties for verification (design rule checking) and manufacturing. However in late 2000s developers started reconsidering...
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    Standard cell (category Electronic design automation)
    attribute to the .lib file. In semiconductor design, standard cells are ensured to be design rule checking (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) compliant...
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    its design rule checking and layout versus schematic tool Hercules (including 3D silicon structure modeling). Avanti then bought Compass Design Automation...
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  • place wires as close to that path as possible without violating design rule checking (DRC). Some more advanced interactive routers have "push and shove"...
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    usually by static timing analysis. This, and other final tests such as design rule checking and power analysis collectively called signoff are intended to ensure...
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    tolerances, rules and common manufacturing checks related to DFM. While DFM is applicable to the design process, a similar concept called DFSS (design for Six...
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  • day as part of Philips spin-off NXP Semiconductors. AL153 Design rule checking Electronic design automation (EDA) Semiconductor device Very-large-scale integration...
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    requirements – Electrical Rule Checking (ERC). Layout Post Processing, also known mask data preparation, often concludes physical design and verification. It...
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    Verilog. The system has many analysis and synthesis tools, including design rule checking, simulation, routing, Layout vs. Schematic, logical effort, and more...
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    or circuit diagram of the design. A successful design rule check (DRC) ensures that the layout conforms to the rules designed/required for faultless fabrication...
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  • It uses routines, often called "validation rules", "validation constraints", or "check routines", that check for correctness, meaningfulness, and security...
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    In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification...
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  • of the standard cells in the design has not altered the functionality of the constructed circuit. Design rule checking (DRC) – Also sometimes known as...
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  • design can have billions of polygons that represent wires and transistors. Efficient checking relies heavily on geometry query. For example, a rule may...
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  • Place and route (category Electronic design automation)
    time peeling up and sticking down the tape. Later design rule checking sped up the process of checking for the most common sorts of errors. Later auto routers...
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  • Semiconductor intellectual property core (category Electronic design automation)
    hard core in GDSII format is considered 'clean' if it passes DRC (Design rule checking) and LVS (Layout Versus Schematic). In other words, it meets all...
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  • design rules, are usually encoded in file formats which are proprietary to one or more EDA vendors. This set of files constitutes the process design kit...
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  • effort. This led to major improvements in CAD technology for layout, design rule checking, and simulation. The tools developed in this program were used extensively...
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    KiCad (category Electronic design automation software)
    highlighting and individual layer dimming, and a highly customizable design rule checking (DRC). A number of external tools have been developed following the...
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  • WikiChip". "A Heuristic Approach to Fix Design Rule Check (DRC) Violations in ASIC Designs @7nm FinFET Technology". Design And Reuse. Merrit, Rick (16 Jan 2017)...
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