Driven by the need to objectively measure the progress of their verification efforts and the contributions of different verification techniques, IC designers have adopted coverage as a metric. However ...

R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in the 1990s, ...

The phrase "simulation modalities" may conjure up a variety of images. For example, some nursing staff development professionals think of a sophisticated training mannequin that produces ...

During IC design, worst-case simulations help designers account for variations in characteristics of PNP and NPN transistors and base and polysilicon resistors. These four classes of devices alone ...

Continuing with the coal seam thickness example from the "Getting Started" section, this example asks a more complicated question. This question is economic in nature, and the (approximate) answer ...

Since the beginning of the semiconductor industry, mask-data preparation (MDP) and mask verification (MV) have been shape-based: each shape has been treated as an entity unto itself, and if each ...