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 ...

While not typically considered a software developer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is turning some heads with a Web-based product developed in-house to improve the design review process. The Corps ...

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 ...

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 ...