Top 5 Caliber IC design solutions in IC verification

15/07/2023

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1. Calibre Physical Verification

Calibre physical verification is the industry leader for accuracy, reliability, and performance. The Calibre nmPlatform provides a comprehensive and innovative suite of functionality that enables foundries, IDMs, and fabless companies to efficiently address all physical verification requirements.

Calibre nmDRC

The Calibre nmDRC platform enables reduced cycle time with revolutionary new capabilities that substantially differentiate Calibre nmDRC design rule checking from traditional DRC tools.

Calibre nmDRC Recon

The Calibre nmDRC Recon technology lets design teams perform physical verification of full-chip design layouts during early stages in the design cycle, while different components are still immature.

Calibre Pattern Matching

The Calibre Pattern Matching tool works within the Calibre nmPlatform to enable powerful, integrated pattern-based design verification and manufacturing flows.

Calibre Multi-Patterning

Calibre Multi-Patterning technology provides industry-leading multi-patterning decomposition, verification, and error debugging. Supports all major foundry methodologies and processes.

Calibre 3DSTACK

Calibre 3DSTACK technology provides comprehensive support for an extensive range of multi-die integration methodologies and processes, including system-level DRC, LVS, and PEX.

Calibre Auto-Waivers

Calibre Auto-Waivers technology lets users waive false physical and circuit verification violations to focus on real errors, speed design process, make debug more efficient, and shorten schedules.

2. Calibre Circuit Verification

The Calibre Circuit Verification suite includes layout vs. schematic (LVS), reliability verification and parasitic extraction. These tools provide sign-off quality results, as well as integration into Siemens EDA and 3rd-party products for circuit simulation and other downstream requirements.

Calibre nmLVS

The Calibre nmLVS platform delivers high performance layout vs. schematic verification, electrical rule checking, and advanced parameter calculation to validate circuit integrity and accuracy.

Calibre nmLVS Recon

The Calibre nmLVS Recon technology lets teams perform a rapid analysis of dirty designs to find and fix specific types of circuit violations earlier and faster, reducing signoff LVS verification runs.

Calibre xACT

The Calibre xACT tool delivers reference-level accuracy for leading-edge FinFET, custom, analog, and RF designs, with performance and capacity for multi-million instance digital designs.

Calibre xACT 3D

The Calibre xACT 3D tool features a 3D field solver modeling engine built on advanced software algorithms to accurately calculate parasitic effects at the transistor level.

Calibre xRC

The Calibre xRC parasitic extraction tool delivers accurate parasitic data for comprehensive and accurate post-layout analysis and simulation. Foundry-qualified for practically every process and node.

Calibre PERC

The Calibre PERC platform is the industry leader for reliability verification solutions, enabling a vast range of IC circuit reliability checks not possible with traditional verification tools.

Calibre xL

The Calibre xL tool delivers fast, accurate full-chip frequency-dependent loop inductance and loop resistance extraction that highly correlates with field solvers and provides silicon-tested accuracy.

3. Calibre Reliability Verification

Reliability verification helps ensure the robustness of an IC design by considering the context of schematic and layout information to perform checks against various electrical and physical design rules that reduce susceptibility to premature or catastrophic electrical failures, usually over time.

Calibre® PERC™

The Calibre PERC platform is the industry leader for reliability verification solutions, enabling a vast range of IC circuit reliability checks not possible with traditional verification tools.

Calibre YieldEnhancer

The Calibre YieldEnhancer tool improves interconnect reliability with advanced layout modification commands that perform layout enhancement.

Calibre DesignEnhancer

Calibre DesignEnhancer automated layout analysis delivers correct-by-construction layout optimizations during full custom design and P&R implementation to improve reliability and manufacturability while reducing time to market.

4. Calibre Design for Manufacturing

At nanometer nodes, design sign-off requires more than DRC and LVS. Calibre DFM yield analysis, printability, and performance validation tools provide layout modifications and design flow-based yield-enhancing operations and ensure IC design optimization, performance, and reliability.

Calibre DesignEnhancer

Calibre DesignEnhancer automated layout analysis delivers correct-by-construction layout optimizations during full custom design and P&R implementation to improve reliability and manufacturability while reducing time to market.

Calibre YieldEnhancer with SmartFill

The Calibre YieldEnhancer tool is an analysis-based layout modification platform providing an automated analysis-based approach to layout enhancements that help improve yield without sacrificing area.

Calibre YieldAnalyzer

The Calibre YieldAnalyzer tool provides comprehensive methods to analyze design manufacturability and reliability, including critical area analysis, DFM scoring, and via redundancy checking.

Calibre CMPAnalyzer

The Calibre CMPAnalyzer tool enables designers to examine a variety of CMP effects and determine the optimum modifications for improving performance and yield.

Calibre LFD

The Calibre LFD tool captures a design’s response to manufacturing process effects, enabling engineers to fix hotspots, variability, and reliability issues before tape-out.

5. Calibre Interfaces

The Calibre nmPlatform integrates with all major custom design tools, place and route systems, and a wide range of specialty design tools. Interfaces bring the power of Calibre sign-off engines to designers throughout the design flow, enabling early detection and correction of manufacturing issues.

Calibre RealTime Digital

The Calibre RealTime Digital interface enables on-demand immediate Calibre DRC feedback for digital design flows, enabling P&R engineers to shave weeks off their tapeout schedule.

Calibre RealTime Custom

The Calibre RealTime Custom interface enables on-demand immediate Calibre DRC feedback for custom and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) design flows, improving DRC productivity by 2-4X.

Calibre RVE

The Calibre RVE results viewer provides fast, flexible, easy-to-use graphical debugging capabilities that minimize your turnaround time and get you to “tapeout-clean” on schedule.

Calibre Interactive

The Calibre Interactive interface is the invocation GUI for Calibre physical and circuit verification and parasitic extraction engines, with easy access from within popular layout design environments.

Calibre DESIGNrev

The Calibre DESIGNrev interface speeds full-chip design completions and tape-outs by rapidly loading, displaying, and saving large GDSII and OASIS files.

(Source: Siemens)

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