To make sense of what’s been scanned, says Adil Shafi, president of Brighton, Mich.-based Shafi Inc. (www.shafiinc.com), a software-solutions value-added supplier to Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Co.

Pattern matching is best known for its use in detecting lithographic hotspots, but it’s also widely used across all physical verification flows, and has expanded into design-for-manufacturing (DFM) ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. IC physical verification (i.e., design rule checking or “DRC”) used to be easy. In the good old days, you could run some ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.