Wael Manhawy, Calibre LVS Product Manager, discusses Calibre nmLVS recon. In the early design phases, the designs are often incomplete, dirty, and contain lots of violations, so doing regular LVS runs can be unproductive because they will not fix what is broken at this point.
With nmLVS Recon, it’s a paradigm shift where we can enable the user to do early fixing for important problems by focusing on certain categories of violations like short isolation, ERC, and early recon compare. Calibre nmLVS recon enables the user to do this in any process because it is process agnostic, focused on certain categories of violations, specific layers, or nets if needed. Or you can customize your own scripts to mix and match.
This will enable the user to finish the violations and short isolation much faster than before, and with Calibre nmLVS Recon SI, we can do up to 30 x faster iterations, which enables the users to run fixing in parallel to get many more iterations to efficiently to fix these kind of violations.