Context-aware checks integrate physical and electrical information to evaluate a wide range of design conditions, from advanced design rule compliance, to circuit and reliability verification, to ...

Mentor, a Siemens business, is into a wide range of software, from real-time operating systems (RTOSs) to chip-design tools. Also in the mix is printed-circuit-board (PCB) design software. Quite a bit ...

Circuit design implementation has become progressively complex in deep submicron technologies. Multiple processor cores, I/Os, several types of memories, complex analog circuits, and synthesized logic ...

Frequently, the customer netlists sent to ASIC vendors' design center engineers for physical implementation are riddled with problems. "If you have timing or congestion problems in implementations, it ...