Pattern Matching: Blueprints
for Further Success
Jonathan Muirhead and Hend Wagieh, Mentor Graphics
Design patterns have a wide variety of applications in the design, verication and
test ows of IC development. From signicantly reducing rule deck complexity
to simplifying the task of avoiding known yield detractors to enhancing workows
such as design rule waiver recognition, pattern matching has become a useful
tool throughout design, verication, and test process. Learn how Calibre
®
Pattern
Matching software can help you implement automated pattern capture and
pattern matching in your various IC ows for maximum success at emerging
process nodes.