Calibre® is the only sign-off verification toolset that is integrated with the full range of design tools used throughout the design flow. Calibre provides robust and extensible interfaces to custom design, place and route (PNR), and a wide range of specialty design tools. These interfaces bring the power of Calibre’s sign-off engines to the designer throughout the design flow, enabling early detection and correction of manufacturing issues. Interface Types Standard Invocation & Result Viewing Interfaces Calibre’s standard interfaces enable users to run verification on the layout and schematics within a design tool, and highlight the results back into the design tool. Calibre Interactive™ interfaces with the design tool to invoke batch Calibre, and once the interface is established, any appropriate Calibre flow— DRC, LVS, PERC, PEX, or DFM—can be executed from the design tool. Calibre RVE™ is used to navigate the results and highlight them back into the design tool. If the design tool supports schematics, Calibre RVE can also highlight in the schematics. Database Interfaces Calibre can read and write from GDSII, OASIS®, OpenAccess, LEF/DEF, and the Synopsys Milkyway databases. Reading directly from the database eliminates the time required to open the database in the design tool, and jobs can be launched directly to the compute grid. Once batch processing is complete, Calibre can back-annotate results to the original database. While customers have developed many different applications of this capability, the most common is back-annotation of results from Calibre SmartFill or other Calibre YieldEnhancer modifications to the design database. Course Highlights If you have a Calibre hierarchical DRC license, all of the powerful capabilities of Calibre eqDRC are already yours to use – no additional license is required! Referred to as everything from “DRC on steroids” to “the next generation of verification,” Calibre eqDRC gives you the competitive edge you need get through these difficult times. This course teaches you how to harness the power of Calibre eqDRC to: Provide enhanced debugging support for designers Write new rule decks more efficiently Improve performance Shrink rule deck size Check for known manufacturability issues that were previously impossible to check Translate in-house expertise into next-generation rules Taught by industry experts and filled with dozens of examples, real-life labs, and applications, this course provides theory and concepts, tips and best practices, and hands-on experience. This all adds up to a true competitive edge. You will learn how to Create single and multi-layer properties Enhance existing rules using DFM PROPERTY to provide designers with information about DRC violations Write complex checks involving conditional and chained expressions Transfer properties from one layer to another Simplify coding by translating commonly-used expressions into DFM Functions Write connectivity-based rules Check for design problems resulting from multi-layer interdependencies Read and write layout object properties and text from your Calibre nmDRC run Hands-on labs Enhancing spacing rules to support debugging Deriving layers to measure Writing checks to find gate orientation and aspect ratios Experimenting with clustering options Finding min and max spacing to hookup. Writing and using a spacing function in checks for three different metal layers Writing a check that will find the width of a line at the location where the spacing is most narrow