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IC designers use EDA tools to implement their logical and physical design, and these tools require foundry-specific information for:
- Design Rule Checking (DRC)
- Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)
- Library Symbols
- Parasitic EXtraction (PEX)
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One of the first things that needs to be created when bringing up a new process is the Process Design Kit, or PDK. Years ago, back when I was running the custom IC business line at Cadence, we had a dominant position with the Virtuoso layout editor and so creating a PDK really meant creating a Virtuoso PDK, and it was a fairly straightforward… Read More
