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Design with Calibre
Calibre IC Manufacturing in 2025: The year’s biggest news
Read about 2025 highlights from Siemens Calibre IC Manufacturing group, including advances in computational metrology, monotonic machine learning, AI, EUV and GPU acceleration
ESD verification in 3D ICs: Navigating unseen risks and new realities
Discover best practices for automated 3D IC ESD verification using Calibre 3DPERC. Learn how to address the unique challenges of ESD protection in advanced 3D IC designs and ensure system-level reliability.
Calibre IC Design in 2025: AI, 3D IC advancement and shift-left strategies drive verification excellence
Read about 2025 IC Design highlights from Siemens Calibre, including AI-powered verification and debug, 3D IC innovations, and shift-left strategies supporting accelerated tapeouts.
Securing your silicon: Why automated IP integrity is non-negotiable in modern SoC design
Ensure IP integrity in your SoC designs. Discover how Calibre IP Checker detects hidden IP modifications, prevents costly re-spins and accelerates tape-out.
6 frequent design rule checking errors every IC designer should know – and how Calibre nmDRC helps you avoid them
Learn about some common design rule checking (DRC) violations in integrated circuit layouts—and how Calibre nmDRC helps engineers catch, analyze and resolve them quickly to ensure first-pass silicon success.
Bridging the gap: Unlock seamless collaboration in IC design with Calibre Connectivity Interface
Calibre Connectivity Interface (CCI) seamlessly connects EDA tools for advanced IC design verification. It transforms LVS into a powerful data source, enabling critical analyses like parasitic extraction & power integrity.
The IC designers complete guide to design rule checking
Design rule checking (DRC) ensures IC layouts meet foundry rules. Learn how modern DRC engines like Calibre deliver scalable, sign-off accuracy at advanced nodes
IC visualization: Supercharge debug of hidden parasitic threats with Calibre
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Chalk Talks Featuring Siemens Digital Industries Software
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Speed Matters: Methods and Methodologies to Get the Most Performance
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Ludovic Jacomme from Siemens and Amelia Dalton investigate the benefits that Siemens Veloce proFPGA CS can bring to your next FPGA-based prototyping project and how you can take advantage of this solution today.
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Time to first prototype shouldn’t be so hard!
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Romain Petit from Siemens and Amelia Dalton examine the challenges of FPGA-based prototyping and how the automatic partitioning, automatic cabling, runtime and debug infrastructure and more of the Siemens VPS platform can make your next FPGA-based prototype project easier than ever before.
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Veloce proFPGA CS First to Market with VP1902
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Oz Levia from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore the trends pushing a need for hardware-assisted verification, how modularity can speed up system design, and the benefits that the Veloce proFPGA CS platform can bring to your next design.
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Driving innovation in 3D IC Design: Siemens Calibre MultiPhysics Work Flow
Sponsored by Mouser Electronics and Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, John Ferguson from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore how we can drive 3D IC innovation with Siemens Calibre MultiPhysics Work Flow. They also investigate the implications of thermal issues on 3D IC design, the benefits of multiphysics simulations from the concept stage throughout the design cycle, and the steps included in the Siemens fully automated MultiPhysics Work Flow.
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Insight Analyzer: Design-Driven Reliability Verification
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Matthew Hogan from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore how Siemens Insight Analyzer can help designers identify and address design-specific potential circuit reliability failure areas. They also examine how Insight Analyzer redefines comprehensive circuit verification and can be a compelling addition to “shift-left” strategy.
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Accelerating Time to Fault Campaign Success with Siemens EDA
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Ann Keffer and Robert Serphillips from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore how the Siemens EDA functional safety platform can guide your team through the complete ISO 26262 lifecycle. They also examine the benefits that the Veloce Fault App brings to automotive IC designs and how you can take advantage of the full suite of functional tools from Siemens EDA for your next automotive IC design.
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SIRIUS Modular System
Sponsored by Mouser Electronics and Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Sarah Alqaysi from Siemens and Amelia Dalton investigate the Siemens SIRIUS Modular System. They explore how this system of motor starters, contactors, overload relays, and load feeders can help switch, control and protect the motors in your next design.
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FPGA-based Prototyping with the Latest High-Capacity FPGA Enables New Use Modes
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
FPGA-based prototyping is an essential tool for any SoC and digital chip design and verification. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Juergen Jaeger from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore the multitude of benefits of the Veloce proFPGA CS platform from Siemens. They also investigate the debug capabilities, software prototyping and scalable hardware of this solution, and how you can use the Veloce proFPGA CS solution for your next design.
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Calibre DesignEnhancer: Layout Modifications that Improve your Design
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Jeff Wilson from Siemens and Amelia Dalton investigate the variety of benefits that the Calibre DesignEnhancer brings to IC design and how this tool suite can be used to find and fix critical design stage issues. They also explore how the Calibre DesignEnhancer can Identify and resolve issues early in design flow with sign-off quality solutions and how you can utilize Calibre DesignEnhancer for your next design.
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Introducing the Next Generation in Electronic Systems Design
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, David Wiens from Siemens and Amelia Dalton explore the role that AI, cloud connectivity and security will play for the future of electronic system design and how Siemens is furthering innovation in this area with its integrated suite of design tools.
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Shift Left Block/Chip Design with Calibre
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton and David Abercrombie from Siemens EDA explore the multitude of benefits that shifting left with Calibre can bring to chip and block design. They investigate how Calibre can impact DRC verification, early design error debug, and optimize the configuration and management of multiple jobs for run time improvement.
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Shift Left with Calibre
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton and David Abercrombie from Siemens investigate the details of Calibre’s shift-left strategy. They take a closer look at how the tools and techniques in this design tool suite can help reduce signoff iterations and time to tapeout while also increasing design quality.
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Solutions for Heterogeneous Multicore
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
Multicore processing is more popular than ever before but how do we take advantage of this new kind of processing? In this episode of Chalk Talk, Jeff Hancock from Siemens and Amelia Dalton investigate the challenges inherent in multicore processing, the benefits of hypervisors and multicore frameworks, and what you need to consider when choosing your next multicore processing solution.
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Software and Automotive Safety
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In the realm of automotive designs, safety must reign above all else. But the question remains: How can we innovate within the constraints of today’s safety standards? In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Rob Bates from Siemens about the role ISO 26262 plays when it comes to COTS and open source software, what certified software components are all about, and how heterogeneous multiprocessing can be helpful in your next automotive design.
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Medical Device Security
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
In the new era of connected medical devices, securing embedded systems has become more important than ever. But, there is a lot medical device designers can borrow from current best-practices for embedded security in general. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Robert Bates from Mentor about strategies and challenges for securing modern medical devices and systems.
Keeping Your Linux Device Secure
Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software
Embedded security is an ongoing process, not a one-time effort. Even after your design is shipped, security vulnerabilities are certain to be discovered - even in things like the operating system. In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton chats with Kathy Tufto from Mentor - a Siemens business, about how to make a plan to keep your Linux-based embedded design secure, and how to respond quickly when new vulnerabilities are discovered.