It's a banality to say that nowadays, databases for digital chips are more than huge. The physical description of an SOC, encoded in the classical GDSII format, now often goes over 20Gbytes. Files of ...

For more than three decades, GDSII has been the de facto standard format for layout design data. But it has been thought for some time that GDSII's inefficient data representation makes it inadequate ...

As the exchange of layout descriptions between teams involved in modern integrated circuit (IC) development and production increase in terms of rate, value and size, the need for control and ...

DFM enhancers that operate on post-layout GDSII files are no longer viable for 65-nm designs. The way to reach acceptable performance and yield goals is to make the entire design flow aware of DFM. By ...