This paper presents a systematic approach to writing a design rule checker (DRC) for PCB design. After a PCB design is captured in a schematic tool, a DRC must be run to find any design rule ...

Many of today's large, complex designs can contain thousands of lines of Verilog or VHDL code. Quite often, teams of engineers—with some members possibly situated in disparate locations worldwide—will ...

At one time, the relationship between logic designers and physical implementation specialists was simpler. Front-end designers had long been accustomed to providing their ASIC vendors with a ...