This technical product presentation will introduce the only physical verification tool developed specifically to address the needs of Deep Submicron designs. Calibre offers complete flexibility for all verification needs, flat, hierarchical, multiprocessor for both DRC and LVS, and remains unbeaten in any performance benchmark. Rapidly becoming a standard at many large semiconductor foundries, Calibre contains a number of proprietary techniques to deliver blistering performance, unheralded accuracy and minimum resource utilization.

Bio:
Roy Dunn is technical marketing manager for the Mentor Graphics' Physical Extraction and Verification division. He graduated in 1982 in Melbourne Australia and worked for seven years in England as an analog and high-speed digital ICdesigner for GEC Research Laboratories and Advanced Microelectronic Systems. He joined Silicon Compiler Systems in 1989 as an applications engineer covering Northern Europe, and continuing in that role after Mentor Graphics acquired SCS in 1990. From 1992 to 1995 Roy was European Product Manager for the IC layout and verification tools (and mixed-signal IC design). Roy moved to North Carolina in April 1996, adopting the Technical Marketing role for Calibre and xCalibre.