SAN FRANCISCO — Nassda Corp. is preparing to roll out its Lexsim simulator designed to calculate the impact of power drops on chips with nanometer-scale geometries. Lexsim is said to support ...

IR drop is becoming a much bigger problem as technology nodes scale and more components are packed into advanced packages. This is partly a result of physics, but it’s also the result of how the ...

The concept of IR drop in silicon chips has always been a crucial aspect of chip design. However, recent technological trends and the emergence of new challenges, such as voltage-sensitive paths, have ...

Cadence Design Systems today unveiled an enhancement to its Allegro platform that it claims will improve productivity and accuracy by allowing a more detailed simulation of how complex IC packaging ...