While product reliability has always been an important factor in the semiconductor industry, the increasing use of electronics in such fields as transportation, medical devices, and communications has exponentially increased the demand for integrated circuits (ICs) that will perform as intended for their designed product life. However, while the need for accurate and precise reliability verification has grown significantly, ensuring IC reliability with existing verification techniques has been a major challenge for IC design companies. Technology scaling combined with the rapid growth in different types of design applications has only compounded the issue, increasing both the number of reliability checks required and their complexity. All of these factors are driving demand for an accurate, automated methodology for verifying chip reliability. In response, new electronic design automation (EDA) tools, such as the Calibre® PERC™ reliability platform, now provide designers with powerful capabilities to implement reliability checks that can quickly and accurately validate different reliability issues using topology, voltage propagation, and logic-driven layout (LDL) capabilities