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If this is your first time posting in the forum, please introduce yourself and say hi to everyone in the community.

I'm Karen Chow, and I work at Mentor Graphics as a Technical Marketing Engineer for Calibre xRC. I started my career working at Nortel in Ottawa, first in synchronization, then in analog ICs for telephony. I then moved to Mentor Graphics to become an AE in Ottawa, then moved to the Mentor head office in Wilsonville OR (suburb of Portland). In my spare time, I enjoy playing keyboards and bass, and singing. I also enjoy quilting as well.

I'm looking forward to meeting you in the forums.

Karen.

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Hello,

I'm Jacob Mathai and I work in Global IT Operations in Wilsonville. I manage a Web Infrastructure Team at Mentor. We have been working with CSD and the product divisions to launch this Community platform. My interests include travel and being outdoors.

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jacob_mathai Apr 7, 2008 2:59 PM
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Hello,

I'm Jacob Mathai and I work in Global IT Operations in Wilsonville. I manage a Web Infrastructure Team at Mentor. We have been working with CSD and the product divisions to launch this Community platform. My interests include travel and being outdoors.
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Joel May 5, 2008 1:12 PM
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Hi,

Joel Jensen here.

I have been with Mentor Graphics for 1 year now working as a CAE for Calibre Extraction products.

In my previous incantation, I was a CAD Engineer for 9+ years in SOC Design. My role was design methodology and all phases of design except the layout, included, but not limited to, spec., RTL development, synthesis, STA, simulation, scan insertion, ATPG, and parasitic extraction.

On the personal side, you can usually find me fighting fires, sailing, re-roofing the house, or just relaxing (ya, right).

I welcome the opportunity to get to know and interact with our customers more.

See ya around.
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smitha_teegala May 7, 2008 2:46 PM
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Hello Everyone,

I am Smitha Teegala,and I work as a Corporate Marketing Engineer at Mentor Graphics.I graduated from University of Alabama in Huntsville(UAH) and have joined Mentor two and half years back.

Initially,I was working with Digital design products like modelsim and precision synthesis but now my main concentration is on Physical Verification (Calibre).

My hobbies include traveling,cooking and watching games like basketball and football.I enjoy shopping and Interior Decoration as well.

I am glad I had the opportunity to introduce myself and looking forward to meet you all in the forums .

Smitha
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Daran May 19, 2008 9:16 AM
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Hi everyone,

I have been asking for a site like this and I'm glad Mentor put one together!
I hope this can be a nice complement to the supportnet material that's already available.

I'm Daran Davis and I have been working as a CAD engineer for 14 years at various
companies. I started out with Motorola in Phoenix doing PDK
development. I worked on a team of engineers that collaborated with EDA
vendors to reduce PDK development from ~6 months to 3 weeks. This
project was the early precursor to much of the PDK development
automation that I see EDA companies like Cadence offering as a service.

I then moved on to LSI Logic in Colorado to support an Analog design and
layout group. This was my first introduction to many of Mentor's tools.
I developed many PDK's for internal and external foundaries and began
using a new tool called Calibre :x. I focused more on backend development by
working with Mentor on their then new device generators and adding a schematic
driven layout flow.

Currently, I'm at Lattice semiconductor in Hillsboro Oregon. My focus recently has
been on xRC/LVS/DRC for our internal PDK's. I feel xRC is the most
challenging of these areas mainly because there are so many different
ways that it can be run to produce the required netlist and also
because it's hard to confirm that the results are correct.

Daran
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chris_balcom @ Daran on May 19, 2008 10:35 AM
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Welcome to the community!

-chris
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karen_chow @ Daran on May 29, 2008 10:34 AM
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Hi Daran. It's nice to meet you. Do you have any recommendations on how xRC can be easier to use, or on how to make it easier to confirm that the results are correct?

Karen
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Daran @ karen_chow on Sep 8, 2008 7:28 AM
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Hi Karen,
Thanks for your interest in my suggestions! Maybe I should start a separate thread on the subjects of my thoughts on possible improvements and methods for validating results. I enjoy using the Calibre family of products and finding way to use them to solve other problems.
Regards,
Daran
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James May 19, 2008 3:09 PM
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Hi everyone,

I'm James Paris and have been working as a Calibre Technical Marketing Engineer at Mentor since 2000. During that time, I've supported DRC, LVS and a little bit of extraction. I spent many years supporting our customers who use Calibre within the Cadence environment and PDK development. Prior to working at Mentor, I spent about 8 years doing custom layout, CAD, and a little bit of place and route as a back-end AMS layout engineer using primarily Cadence tools.

I really enjoy working on PV methodology issues and prototyping flows that solve real customer issues. Currently, I am supporting Calibre DRC with a focus on Calibre Incremental DRC and hierarchical database compare with DBdiff. I look forward to participating in this community to provide additional support to our customers.

James
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farshad_dailami May 29, 2008 2:45 PM
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Hi All:

I'm Farshad and I work for Mentor also. I am a technical writer supporting the xRC product. My experience includes analog/mixed-signal circuit design, CAD engineering (Cadence Pcell developer), project management, design kit management and coordination, and some other boring stuff. My interests include my wife and 4 kids, gardening, wood working, (lots of) reading, and the occasional video game.

Farshad Dailami | Mentor Graphics Technical Publications | 208.478.1894
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musicman Jun 3, 2008 4:43 PM
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Hi

My name is Luan. I've been a Cailbre user for quite some time. My focus area is design kit development and I had worked on many DRC, LVS, and extraction flows. In conjunction with technical duties, I manage a CAD team.

I am looking forward to participate in these forums.

Regards

Luan
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chris_balcom @ musicman on Jun 3, 2008 4:59 PM
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Hi Luan,

Thanks for participating. Welcome!

-chris
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nicolas_richaud Jun 18, 2008 8:17 AM
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Hi everyone,

I am Nicolas Richaud (Nico). I have been for 3 months by Mentor. I do like Architha the Associate AE program with Calibre in Europe at our Munich office.

In resume, I studied at the electronics engineer school of Bordeaux (ENSEIRB) in France and I did my Masterthesis at Infineon in collaboration with the Munich University.
The Theme of my masterthesis was to develop an application to help retroengineer = legal spying )

Otherwise, by living in Bordeaux (city of wine) and Munich (city of beer), you can understand that I enjoy life. Rugby, mountain sport and languages are some of my favorites hobbies as well.

Have fun!

Nico
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shankarmit @ nicolas_richaud on Jul 7, 2008 6:34 AM
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Hi ,

I am shankar from india, working as physical design engineer at Tallika. Currently using Calibre for drc/lvs/xrc. Nice to join in this community
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fabrizio @ shankarmit on Jul 7, 2008 8:20 AM
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Hi,

I'm CAD engineer on design kit development and mainly on DRC, LVS.

very happy to meet you.

Fabrizio
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chris_balcom Jul 7, 2008 8:42 AM
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Hi Shankar, Hi Fabrizio,

Good to be talking with you. Pleased to meet you. Welcome!

-chris
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roman Jul 8, 2008 12:06 AM
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Hello all,

I'm Roman Kaganovich and I work in Marvell Israel in Layout CAD group.I'm working with Calibre LVS/DRC and Designrev.

My hobbies is hiking, street fight sport and brasilian jiu-jitsu.
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karen_chow @ roman on Jul 9, 2008 4:35 PM
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Hi Roman. Welcome to the forums!

I've been to Israel once, and I loved it. What city do you work in?

Karen
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roman @ karen_chow on Jul 10, 2008 12:52 AM
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Hello Karen,

I'm from Haifa and I'm working in Yokneam - small city around 20km from Haifa.

BTW, I like Israel too
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karen_chow @ roman on Jul 10, 2008 1:45 PM
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I spent a very short time in Haifa. We walked by the Bahai temple, enjoyed their beautiful gardens, and had a nice dinner in the downtown area. It's a very cute town.
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roman @ karen_chow on Jul 12, 2008 11:49 PM
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Hello Karen!

The Gardens wasn't affected by Hesbollah bombing. I say even more, the mass media show this conflict much more dramatic of the real situation. But they work for reiting

I invite you to visit Israel again, we have beautiful country and beautiful people.
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satish_dinavahi Jul 14, 2008 9:32 PM
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Hello Everybody!
This is Satish Dinavahi, Calibre AE from India and I have been with Mentor for 4 + years now. Prior to pre-sales role I was part of CSD india supporting calibre products.
~ Satish
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Bob_Kim Jul 21, 2008 10:39 AM
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I'm Bob , Calibre PVX AE in Korea. I've been in MGC/MGK for 3+ years. I forcus on Calibre eqDRC/YA/YE this year. I worked as CAD engineer to develop the libarary, verfication kit, simulation and systhesis kit before joining MGC/MGK.

I hope to see you at other community pages soon.

Bob.
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boltfan @ Bob_Kim on Aug 1, 2008 6:32 PM
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I am a student, styding RF IC design. We use many tools like ADS and Virtuoso, and Calibre. I am here for the tips and tricks for running Calibre.
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taldin Aug 5, 2008 2:35 PM
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Jeff T. Young here, and 'ello to everyone.

I've been with the Calibre team as one of the RET docs writers since the middle of 2004 (though I've been with Mentor a lot longer), and my expertise is juggling the various RET Modeling manuals while simultaneously building customer-to-docs relations in the Calibre User Advisory Panel.    My belief is that the documentation should reflect the customer's needs as much as possible, and that the company is only part of the solution.

I'm definitely a hands-on sort; give me a test case and a reason someone would use it, and I'm interested in turning it into something everyone can wrap their mind around.

My current pet project for 2008 is the complete overhaul of our backbone modeling docs -- Calibre WORKbench and the Dense Modeling Reference.   I'm privileged to be working with an excellent team of dedicated TMEs to make this happen.

-Jeff
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karen_chow @ taldin on Aug 13, 2008 2:47 PM
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Hi Jeff. Welcome to the forum!
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dhaval_shah Sep 12, 2008 11:01 AM
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Hi everyone, I'm Dhaval Shah and I have been working with Mentor Graphics in various roles since 2004. I started at Mentor as Associate Technical Marketing Engineer for analog mixed-signal product line in Wilsonville, Or. Then I moved into customer support and since last 2 years I am in San Jose working as as application engineer. I have started supporting Calibre product line since end of last year. I look forward to participating in this community to provide additional support to our customers.
-Dhaval
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karen_chow @ dhaval_shah on Aug 19, 2008 10:00 AM
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Hi Dhaval. Nice to see you online!
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irum_siddiqui Sep 13, 2008 12:48 AM
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Hello everyone;

I'm Erum, and I work at Pacific Design located in Karachi ,Pakistan as a Design Manager . I started my career working at Pycon Inc Karachi, a Burn in design subsidiary of Pycon Inc Santa Clara ,first as PCB design engineer, then as Quality Assurance engineer, then as Design Manager. I then moved to Pacific Design . My company is invloved in designing of test boards, basically; Burn in, HAST, high power,Probe cards & load boards using PCAD, Allegro & Altium.
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jacob_mathai @ irum_siddiqui on Oct 5, 2008 10:13 AM
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Welcome to the community Erum!
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Jrah Oct 7, 2008 6:19 AM
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Hello, and thanks to Mentor for creating a forum like this.

I'm Jeffery Hildebrand (I like the alias Jrah, it's my initials and much shorter to type), and I've used Mentor tools at various companies since 1986. Anyone else remember the Apollo work stations? Currently I'm at Boston Scientific and use Calibre for verification of chips for use in implantable medical devices like pacemakers.

Our priorities in the medical industry are a little different than what I experienced at companies like Lucent or Agere, there's a much higher premium placed on low risk and high stability. So our use of Calibre has to be repeatable and as bug free as possible.

I also use many of the Cadence tools, and so integration is important to me. Getting them to work together can sometimes be frustrating.

jrah
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chris_balcom @ Jrah on Oct 7, 2008 10:44 AM
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Welcome to the community Jrah!

Thanks for the background, it's interesting to learn about the different environments the tools are used in.
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klaus.kaiser Oct 24, 2008 6:29 AM
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Hello,

My name is Klaus Kaiser. I work at Liebherr Elektronik GmbH in Lindau, Germany. My job is to model components for use in SystemVision. When my models will finally be deployed, the circuit designers will switch to SystemVision for schematic entry and simulation. Then, I will also maintain the model data in the component database and support the circuit designers.

I would be glad to learn about other members' experience with SystemVision, especially regarding VHDL-AMS models.

Klaus.
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karen_chow @ klaus.kaiser on Dec 1, 2008 1:09 PM
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Hi Klaus. Welcome to the forums, and thanks for posting. What types of components are you modeling?
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klaus.kaiser @ karen_chow on Jan 20, 2009 7:35 AM
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Hi Karen,

so far, I have made generic models for passive and active discrete components, mainly by using the Edulib or VDA models with small changes. Currently I'm working on a generic transformer model. I have also started to develop VHDL-AMS code to make it possible to draw ICs with several functional blocks and separate power blocks, i.e. to draw multiple instances of an opamp and a block with supply voltage terminals which are actually one dual or quad opamp IC. This would probably be easy in the SystemVision standalone, but the SV overlay (for use with Expedition 2005) cannot handle heterogeneous symbols. The Mentor support told me to use signals or quantities with identical names to link the blocks, but this does not work. Currently, I am waiting for a reply from the support team about this problem and proceed with my transformer model and documentation.

The next steps will be to fill a database with component-specific model parameters and let circuit designers use this as a test environment. When this works O.K., the data will be copied to the production database. Later, I will improve the models, i.e. by modelling parasitics or adding code that issues warnings when component specifications are exceeded.
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paul_vo Jan 29, 2009 11:50 AM
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Hello Everyone,

I am an instructor for several classes on Calibre and IC layout tool & flow, such as "Calibre Rule Writing", "Calibre nmDRC / nmLVS" & more. Besides delivering classes, I help course design team with lab developments, content reviews, etc.

Prior to joining Mentor in 2000, I worked for Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, in various capacities, from product engineering to design support.

My hobby is photography. Wherever I go, I look for interesting localities to photograph.

I look forward to meet everyone.

Paul
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mohammed.maaz Feb 28, 2009 10:31 PM
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Hi Karen,

I am Maaz. I work as a AE for Core EL Technologies (Distributor for Mentor Products , India),.
on all Backend tools .Its been about 4 months since I joined this organization.

looking forward to have some inetersting discussions in this community .

-Maaz
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chris_balcom @ mohammed.maaz on Mar 2, 2009 8:31 AM
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Hi Maaz,

Welcome to the Calibre communities!

I look forward to discussions with you. I would like to know a little about what it is like for you as a distributor for Mentor back end tools in India. I am active in customer support for DRC and LVS related tools in North America but I don't know much about other regions or business models. I'm very curious about how other users of Mentor tools live and work around the world.

Thanks for participating,
-chris
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venugopal.pabba Mar 9, 2009 10:28 PM
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Hi all,
Iam venugopal working as design eng in AMD iam using calibre for my verification of layouts
nice to meet you all
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chris_balcom @ venugopal.pabba on Mar 10, 2009 9:26 AM
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Hi Venugopal and welcome, nice to meet you too.
-chris
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andrewng Apr 16, 2009 1:47 AM
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Hi All,

I am Andrew Ng who is working in a IC Design House in Hong Kong.
My job responisibility is to provide a internal verification set (DRC, LVS, Antenna) which used in my company.

Nice to meet you all here!
Best Regards,
Andrew Ng
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venugopal.pabba @ andrewng on Apr 16, 2009 1:54 AM
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Nice to meet you Andrew Ng
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chris_balcom @ andrewng on Apr 16, 2009 9:33 AM
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Hi Andrew,

Greetings from California, nice to meet you!

-chris
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cnjhw99 May 15, 2009 9:43 AM
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Hello everyone,

This is Hongwei Jia. I was an analog IC designer with ST Microelctronics couple years ago. Now I am a graduate student in FL, doing something so-called research . Actually it is a new lab, so everything is starting from scratch. It's so nice to find this forum. I hope to know some new friends and learn some cad skill from all the experts here.

In my break time, I like travelling around and finding authentic Chinese food...

Have a great day!

Hongwei
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chris_balcom @ cnjhw99 on May 15, 2009 9:47 AM
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Hi Hongwei,

Nice to hear from you. Thanks for saying hello.

-chris
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margo_moore Aug 21, 2009 11:15 AM
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Hi! I am Margo, a Layout Designer in Dallas. I have worked for big companies, with CAD support in the past.
I am now working for a smaller company, where I find myself pretty much layout designer/CAD. The only
problem is , " I am a user, not a guru." Do you have any suggestions for the best way to quickly improve my skill
at deciphering lvs output, and understanding all the different files when starting a new design. Once everything is setup,
the program is pretty easy to use, but now I am responsible for setting it up. I am willing to take a class through Calibre or
our local community college, but most of the classes appear ged towards Design Engineers and CAD engineers. I need to
EFFICIENTLY USE the program. I would also like a complete hardcopy of the manual, where I can write notes for future reference.
Is there an easy way to accomplish that or is it a case of calling up the online manual and printing it out a topic at a time?
Are there any online tutorials?
Thanks for your help.
Margo Moore
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musicman @ margo_moore on Aug 21, 2009 11:31 AM
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Hello Margo,

One suggestion for quickly understand the LVS output from Calibre is to use RVE to help debugging
layout. Also, I believe that the Calibre's document has suggestions for understanding LVS report.
My experience with deciphering LVS output is followed:
- scan the report for the summary section that describes matched and unmatched devices
- look at the discrepancy list for nets, devices mismatch. Usually, device mismatch are a result of
mismatch in connections for the terminals (D,G,S,B).
- also, I scan the run logfile, to understand why a certain device is not derived correctly from the
operations that are setup to recognize the gate region.
- look at the extrated layout netlist either in RVE or in the text editor.

I think that having a formal training thru Mentor will also complement the learning.

Luan
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taldin @ margo_moore on Aug 21, 2009 12:06 PM
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Welcome, Margo!

I'm one of the documentation folks for the Calibre team. If you have the Calibre software docs tree installed, you should be able to open PDF versions of any of the manuals, which can then be printed out fully (instead of the individual topics).

-Jeff Young, Calibre Technical Publications
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paul_vo Aug 21, 2009 11:26 AM
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Hello Margo,

Mentor Graphics offers the "Calibre nmDRC / nmLVS" which may meet your need. Please visit http://www.mentor.com/training_and_services/training/schedule/index.cfm for more details.

Thank you.
Paul
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to_kyou Sep 27, 2009 8:36 PM
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hi everyone
this is Tou Kyou
I have worked in a layout department in Sanyo Semiconductor in Japan for almost 3 years.
I use calibre a lot for verfication on mixed-singal designs.
i am glad to join this forum.
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chris_balcom @ to_kyou on Sep 28, 2009 7:49 AM
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Hi Tou Kyou,

Glad to meet you! Thanks for joining the forum.

I hope you find things here that make your job easier and more interesting.

In case you have come across anything in your experiences these past three years that you think might be of interest to other Calibre users, I would be very interested to hear about it.

Thanks,
-chris
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zhen.boston Nov 9, 2009 11:26 AM
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I'm Zhen Wang, a PHD student in ECE, Boston University.

I'm trying to setup calibre here in my department.

Hope we can help each other . Thanks a lot~!
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chris_balcom @ zhen.boston on Nov 9, 2009 2:22 PM
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Hi Zhen,

Pleased to meet you. I agree, it will be nice to have a chance to help each other.

Which Calibre tools are you setting up?
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zhen.boston @ chris_balcom on Nov 11, 2009 2:22 PM
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Calibre nmLVS and nmDRC

Cuz we move to nangate opencell library based on FreePDK45nm for teaching purpose.
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chris_balcom @ zhen.boston on Nov 11, 2009 3:34 PM
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Great. I hope you have a chance to post any issues or insights you have over in the DRC or LVS area. I'd like to learn more about this process and working through a few issues might be an ideal way to do that.
FreePDK45nm
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chintan7 @ chris_balcom on Mar 22, 2011 2:29 AM
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Hi Chris,

I am also a PhD student from BU. I guess, I have encountered the same errors as Zhen did last years while setting up a toolflow using Nangate FreePDK 45 nm technology. I would appreciate, if you have come along with some possible solutions. My discussion post " LVS error TRACE PROPERTY has the issue in detail.

Thanks,
Chintan
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lbuschelman Jan 20, 2010 1:57 PM
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Hello all,

I have just registered as an out of work guy needing training
with the Mentor tools.
I have been doing pcb layout for years with Cadence &
also with Nortel's in-house tools. Any suggestions on which 2
courses I should request? Do the "live on-line" ones make sense?
Expedition PCB Introduction Live Online Training & Expedition PCB
Advanced Live Online Taining are the ones I am condsidering.

Any suggestions from old pros will be appreciated

Thanks,
Lyle Buschelman
Ottawa, On
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chris_balcom @ lbuschelman on Jan 20, 2010 2:05 PM
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Hi Lyle,

Welcome to the Mentor Communities. You should check out this link and maybe post your question there so that PCB folks will see it:

http://communities.mentor.com/community/pcb

Good luck!
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lbuschelman @ chris_balcom on Jan 21, 2010 7:01 AM
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Chris,
Thanks for catching my message and taking the time to redirect my efforts.
I tried it again at Happy Holdens PCB Insights blog.
If I get no feedback there, I will try other places.

Thanks again,
Lyle
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Mentor_Christine @ lbuschelman on Jan 21, 2010 8:57 AM
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Hi Lyle - I've posted a response to your questions in the other thread. http://communities.mentor.com/message/11511#11511
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kenneth_tan @ Mentor_Christine on Mar 23, 2011 9:01 AM
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Dear All,

My name is Kenneth Tan, a CAD/Layout Designer from Dallas, Texas. It was great to see this communities website and I am looking
forward to learn from all all as well as exchange knowledges and skills. I am using Calibre DRC, LVS as well as XRC . Would like to know more
about this tools as I was the heavy user of Cadence Assura and started using Calibre for this last few years.

Thanks and nice meeting you all 'virtually'!

Sincerely,
Kenneth Tan
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chris_balcom @ kenneth_tan on Mar 23, 2011 10:13 AM
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Hi Kenneth,

Nice to meet you!

I saw the good questions you raised. Hopefully someone else with direct experience will contribute some ideas. I will think about them too, and share a little if I come up with something that may be helpful.

Best regards,
Chris
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sduncan @ chris_balcom on Apr 13, 2011 1:53 AM
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Hi Guys, i'm new to the calibre tools though i have been doing analog IC custom layout for ten years now.
Any suggestions on beginner tutorials on DRC, LVS...etc are very welcome.

Thanks

Stu
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paul_vo @ sduncan on Apr 13, 2011 8:17 AM
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Hello,

If you are new to Calibre but with extensive experience in physical design, you may find the "Calibre Fundamentals: Performing DRC / LVS" class useful. I suggest you look it up at http://www.mentor.com/training-and-services/training/courses/ic-nanometer-design
Hope this suggestion is of help.

Paul
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tracy_casqueiro @ paul_vo on Apr 13, 2011 8:53 AM
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Hello, After taking a look at the course overview Paul suggested, please feel free to contact the Education Services group at 800-345-2308 or email education_services@mentor.com

Thank you
Tracy Casqueiro
Education Services
503-685-7076
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bsrin Sep 24, 2012 7:55 PM
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Hi All,

I'm Srinivas Balla , working as IC layout Engineer at Silicon Image India Pvt Ltd. I use calibre tools (DRC, LVS, PEX) for verfication and Extraction. Nice to meet you all.

Thanks.
Srinivas Balla.
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chris_balcom @ bsrin on Jan 15, 2013 11:09 AM
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Hi and a belated welcome to you Srinivas, I must have missed seeing your introduction back in September. I hope you are finding things of interest here.

-chris
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jlconne Jan 15, 2013 10:55 AM
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Hello,
My name is James Conner and I am an IC Layout Designer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM.
I have also worked at Motorola in Austin, TX as an IC Layout Designer, where we also used Mentor Graphics tools.

- James
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chris_balcom @ jlconne on Jan 15, 2013 11:07 AM
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Hi James, pleased to make your acquaintence. I hope you find this community helpful.
-chris
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yossisc Feb 27, 2013 7:09 AM
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Hello
thanks for the warm welcome

My name is Yossi,

Yossi Schvetz

Design Automation Engineer

Mellanox Technologies LTD

Mellanox Bldg.

Yokneam, Israel 20692

Office line: +972-74-7237100 (Ex.7100)
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phahd.benhammou Mar 7, 2013 5:05 AM
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Hello i'm student engineer and i did work in school with many eda tools.. and now i'm spending my hole time working on calibre PERC and i wish to find hints and help in the community!
so hello everybody!
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tungyi.cop00g Mar 26, 2013 12:39 AM
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Hello,

My name is TungYi Chen. I'm a student from Taiwan.

I use the Calibre EDA tools to extract the information of the metal line.

My advisor let me to solve all problem which I faced by myself.

But some problem is so difficult to me, so that I need everyone give me a hand.

By the way, now all I do is writing the DRC rule file and expend it.

Thanks.

Vernier
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alguronur Mar 26, 2013 2:13 AM
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Hello to everyone,

My name is Onur and I am a MSc. Mechatronics Engineering student in FH Aachen, Germany.

I write my master thesis in a company and the topic is building wiring harness of an electrical vehicle using VeSys.

I am new in the forum but until now I realized that people replies pretty fast which is amazing.

Wish you all luck on your duties, jobs or studies,

Onur
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admin @ alguronur on Mar 26, 2013 2:15 PM
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Welcome to the communities, Onur. Since your thesis is on VeSys, I want to make sure you are aware of the Harness community we have. You can find it here. And there is a sub-community there on VeSys topics.
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skumar61 @ admin on Mar 28, 2013 3:38 PM
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Hi

This is Sushil Kumar a masters student from ASU .

I use calibre EDA tools for getting the thing design .

My research focusses on Custom Circuit design

Thanks
Sushil
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michael.weinberg Jul 10, 2013 3:25 PM
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Hello All.

I'm Mike Weinberg and I work for Emerson Control Techniques in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.

I have over 30 years PCB design experience. In 2012 I won 1st place in Mentor Graphics' Technology Leadership Award competition (the 24^th annual) in the Industrial Controls, Instrumentation, Security and Medical category.

Engineering is in my blood and I'm still loving it after all these years. I feel it's time to give back to the PCB design community in thanks and appreciation for all the help and support I've received in the past.

I've leveraged my experience and opportunities to achieve a broad, in-depth understanding of the DxDesigner>Expedition suite and feel I am now, after five years, in a position to help others.

I welcome any questions or issues the community may have, especially having to do with the various applications of the suite and how they work together.

I can also advise on the establishment of best practices for your particular situation.

More information is available on my profile page.

Warm regards,

Mike
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Community_Admin @ michael.weinberg on Jul 10, 2013 5:57 PM
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Mike - welcome to the Mentor Community. I appreciate that you joined and look forward to your contributions. Having someone with your depth of experience and willingness to share will be a great addition to the community. However, as a PCB designer, you will likely want to target your contributions to the appropriate Expedition community found here: http://communities.mentor.com/community/pcb/expedition. Your introductory post was added to our IC design community. But welcome anyway...we are glad you are here!!
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amardeep.nagarakanti Jul 15, 2013 12:36 AM
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Hi Everyone,

I am Amardeep, currently working for a startup in India, as a CAD engineer, developing CAD methodologies and infrastructure, supporting custom layout, functional verifiation teams. I had worked earlier with Cypress India providing CAD support. Over the years I had an oppurtunity to work with calibre, but now I am try to develop some rule-decks to provide some handy utilties to the layout engineers. Can someone suggest me the path I should go in quickly understanding SVRF and write rule files. Are there any tutuorials/documents (other than userguides) that can help a starter to write calibre rules.

Thanks for you help,
Amardeep
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samantha_lizak @ amardeep.nagarakanti on Jul 15, 2013 7:16 AM
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Hi Amardeep-

The very best way to learn to write rule files is to take the instructor-led training because they not only highlight the important details such as what rules have the best performance for certain situations but can also answer questions about tailoring the rule files and utilities to your employer's needs. They also have a direct line to the developers if you ask something they haven't run into before. The class you would want as a CAD person is "Writing DRC/LVS Rules".

There are also self-paced (usually video) tutorials, aimed more at the end user than the CAD rule writer. To view the entire list,
1. On SupportNet with Calibre nmDRC selected, click the Reference tab.
2. On the reference tab, click the "How Tos and Tutorials" link at the end of the tab top nav. (It will be in the row under the tab name.)
3. Feast your eyes. :-) Some tutorials only show up with particular products; most rule-writing ones are under "nmDRC."
As an example, one that might interest you is "How to Generate Calibre XOR Rules for OASIS and GDS Database Compare". I also highly recommend "Understanding the Calibre Log File."

Another hidden resource is the Calibre QuickStart and the many Calibre example kits hidden under the "Downloads and Utilities" link. (We are working at making this more easily accessible.) If the link doesn't work for you, you can get to them by
1. On SupportNet (any product), click the Downloads tab.
2. Ignore the big executable download. Below it is a humble link, "Calibre Utilities, Examples, Scripts and Interface Software". Click that.
3. You'll be presented with a reminder that SVRF and TVF are IP -- it is a repeat of one chunk of the bigger Calibre license and nothing new, legally. Click "I agree".
4. The examples are the last group of downloads. You can either jump directly there, or find them at the end after browsing the wealth of scripts that the application engineers have donated over the years.
Best of luck-

Sam.
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shitiza @ samantha_lizak on Aug 1, 2013 11:58 PM
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Hi All.

This is Shitiz, i just subscribed to this forum. I work on DRC/PERC Runset Development and InterConnect Modeling, i am working with QualComm, joined just 8 months back.
Earlier i was working with Freescale , worked with FSL for 7 years in DRC/LVS and PERC . Prior to Freescale i as worked with Cadence for 2 year, supporting Pshysical verificaton tools.
I look forward to stay tuned with the latest issues and developments through this forum.

Regards
Shitiz
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chris_balcom @ shitiza on Aug 2, 2013 8:00 AM
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Hi Shitiz,

Welcome to the Calibre Communities!

And thanks for already offering assistance to others here. Way to keep the Community spirit going.
:-)

-chris
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tommark Sep 13, 2013 10:05 AM
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Hi everybody,

I'm glad to participate in Mentor Communities.

My name is tom. I am a OPC&DFM engineer in Shanghai. I always keep on studying calibre RET tools and love to use calibre tools really.
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chris_balcom @ tommark on Sep 13, 2013 10:17 AM
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Hi Tom,

Welcome to the Calibre Community. I hope you have a pleasant experience.

-chris
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aakulkarni Sep 23, 2013 5:03 AM
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Hello everyone,

I am Akash from Pune,India and currently working for Bajaj Auto., a manufacturer of 2Wh,3Wh in India

Capital Logic and Capital harness XC is what I am learning to handle now. I acquire a lot of knowledge from SupportNet & Communities.
Thanks to all who ever helped me in solving my doubts.
I hope Capital can be developed to a better and more powerful tool which can make users' daily work more effective.

Thank you.
Akash
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karen_chow @ aakulkarni on Nov 19, 2013 9:11 AM
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Welcome Akash!
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luciano.artuso Nov 20, 2013 4:50 AM
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Hi to all,

I'm Luciano and I worked in STmicroelectronics on MDP and RATeam.

I used frequently Calibre , Calibredrv, gds2osis..and some others Mentor uitlity and tools.

ciao
Luciano
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chris_balcom @ luciano.artuso on Nov 20, 2013 6:20 AM
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Welcome to the community Luciano!
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