General Instructions

Welcome to the Physical Verification using Calibre course. This course is divided into 8 chapters:

  1. Introduction to IC design flows
  2. Introduction to Physical Verification
  3. Basic DRC Concepts
  4. Advanced DRC Concepts
  5. Introduction to LVS
  6. LVS Text based Connectivity Checks, Soft Connection errors and Fixing Methodologies
  7. LVS Shorts and Open circuit errors and Fixing Methodologies
  8. Introduction to Parasitic Extraction and PEX Concepts

Each chapter has theory videos and where required, lab demo videos. There are also 8 hands-on lab sessions, which can be done over the cloud.

The primary software used in this course is Mentor Graphics Calibre. Some labs use Mentor Graphics S-edit and Mentor Graphics L-edit. Access to video content is provided for 1 month from the date that login details are provided. Lab access time is also included in this 1 month.

For hands-on lab, send an email to training@coreel.com to get the IP address and credentials of the cloud machine to which you will log in.

For assistance while taking up the course, email training@coreel.com