As reported by EDACafe last July, Mentor has extended their Recon technology to the Calibre nmLVS circuit verification platform. The resulting product is called Calibre nmLVS-Recon, where LVS stands for Layout Versus Schematic, and Recon stands for reconnaissance. This week we will take a closer look at this new tool with the help of Hend Wagieh, a Senior Calibre Product Manager at Mentor, a Siemens business. In the video interview that Wagieh has recently given to Sanjay Gangal from EDACafe, a number of topics concerning Calibre nmLVS-Recon have been addressed. Wagieh set up the context by briefly recapping what Calibre is about: a comprehensive platform for design automation and design analysis, which includes a number of tools for physical verification, circuit verification, parasitic extraction, yield enhancing. According to Wagieh, Calibre is used by “twenty-three out of the top twenty-five” companies designing chips worldwide.
