Calibre - The Industry Standard for Deep Submicron Verification

The Calibre product line has quickly become the industry standard for deep submicron physical verification and sub-wavelength manufacturability. It offers fast and reliable solutions to design rule checking (DRC), layout vs. schematic (LVS), silicon vs. layout, and electrical rule checking (ERC). Built with continuing complexity of design and ever decreasing feature sizes in mind, the Calibre tool suite is architected to meet the challenges of the future.

Key Product Benefits

• Unparalleled Performance: The efficient Calibre nmPlatform engine delivers results in hours vs days. With hyperscaling, runtimes can be dramatically reduced even further, through highly efficient scaling.
• As the industry standard for physical verification, Calibre offers the highest level of support. As the internal sign-off tool for all of the world's major foundries, users can feel confident that Calibre's results are 100% accurate, without requiring any additional user modification.
• Capacity on Tap: The Calibre tool allows virtually unlimited capacity for hierarchical designs, and supports access to more than 2 Gig of RAM for large jobs. For more than 4 Gig, 64-bit operating systems are supported. The multi-threading option allows significant performance improvement with only 1-2% additional memory per processor.
• Design Style Independent: The Calibre verification tool is the only one that offers easy-to-use automatic analysis and optimization of hierarchy for execution efficiency, with uncompromised performance across all design styles.
• Single Flow Solution: Together with Calibre RVE (results viewing environment) Calibre provides a seamless interface within many design environments, enabling designers to use a single platform for interactive cell/block and full-chip physical verification.
• Easy-to-Use: The Calibre product line delivers an out-of-the-box solution for automatic translation of historic rule files and easy graphical debugging in the results viewing environment (Calibre RVE) for integration into any design environment. Easy and robust rule-file syntax makes coding straightforward.