Detailed and precise hierarchical design planning is essential to achieving closure on large designs. In this article we describe a new hierarchical design flow and its usage on a 3 million-gate chip.

Editor's Note: In Part 3 of this series, consultant and ASIC designer Tom Moxon covered several RTL and logic synthesis design flows. In this installment of the series, he'll describe new physical ...

Taking physical design into account as early as possible has been a consideration of chip development teams for quite some time. Still, in interactions with customers and partners, 2022 marked a sharp ...

Enabling designers to perform block and cell physical verification from within layout environments such as Cadence's Virtuoso is Mentor Graphics' Calibre Interactive. This latest version in a ...

Reducing the layout-versus-schematic debug time while continuously delivering reliable, high-performance designs is a must for chip designers needing to meet tight tapeout deadlines and hopefully ...