Will those IO pad rings pass foundry muster?

Will those IO pad rings pass foundry muster?
by Beth Martin on 05-31-2015 at 10:00 pm

I was talking recently to Dina Medhat, a senior technical marketing engineer at Mentor, about, of all things, IO rings. It has not occurred to me that verifying that your IO rings comply with foundry rules presents new challenges.

IO ring checking isn’t new, nor is it unique to advanced IC process nodes. However, the same forces of… Read More