Keeping up with the demand for better, faster design flow performance while preserving the original layout hierarchy of a design can be very challenging during design verification. Designers must constantly manage tradeoffs between performance, database size, and accuracy.

This white paper discusses the new Calibre nmLVS box flow and the tradeoffs and benefits of using white, black or gray boxing options depending on the needs of the design team.

Learn how the new Calibre nmLVS boxing capabilities help manage these trade-offs by allowing:

• Proper usage of regular, black and gray boxing options including strict hierarchy preservation on the black and gray boxed cells
• Management of IP, missing IP and incomplete blocks during design development
• Running of circuit verification and downstream processes ensuring IP and macro cell blocks hierarchy are not altered.
• Manage trade-off of performance vs. accuracy before, during and after the design is complete