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) ...

Pattern matching (PM) was first introduced as the semiconductor industry began to shift from simple one-dimensional rule checks to the two-dimensional checks required by sub-resolution lithography.

PatMax geometric pattern matching software is now available on the vendor’s In-Sight 5100, 5400 and 3400 vision sensors. PatMax provides accurate feature location despite changes in image angle, size, ...

Design patterns have a wide variety of applications in the design, verification and test flows of IC development. From significantly reducing rule deck complexity to simplifying the task of avoiding ...

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.