What impact on productivity can I expect from Calibre xRC?
A. The whole reason for the innovative Calibre xRC flow is to address the requirement for post-layout analysis of DSM designs. Downstream analyses have always been constrained by the output of the extraction engines, such as a flat SPICE netlist. In other words, simulation was driven by the limitations of the LPE tool. Calibre xRC enables simulation of layout, including the parasitic effects of the passive interconnect, at any or mixed levels of abstraction, by simply closing the loop with system verification. Productivity will increase by definition from the potential reduction in silicon spins – but so will design integrity.