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.

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Calibre Design for Manufacturing products

Calibre DFM tools deliver foundry know-how upstream to design engineers, empowering them to design for optimal performance, manufacturability and yield.

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Design stage layout optimization

Calibre DesignEnhancer

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

Optimized layout modification

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 helps improve yield without sacrificing area.

CAA and DFM scoring

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.

Reduce planarity variation

Calibre CMPAnalyzer

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

Reduce process variability

Calibre LFD

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