Smart Fill Replaces Dummy Fill Approach in a DFM Flow

Smart Fill Replaces Dummy Fill Approach in a DFM Flow
by Daniel Payne on 07-30-2011 at 7:11 pm

I met with Jeff Wilson, Product Marketing Manager at Mentor in the Calibre product group to learn more about Smart Fill versus Dummy Fill for DFM flows. Jeff works in the Wilsonville, Oregon office and we first meet at Silicon Compilers back in the 1990’s.

Dummy Fill

This diagram shows an IC layout layer on the left as originallyRead More