Commercial DRC Software
Major products in the DRC area of EDA are:
- "fiXtress" by BQR
- "ALINT" by ALDEC
- "HiPer Verify" by Tanner EDA
- Calibre by Mentor Graphics
- Guardian DRC by Silvaco Inc.
- Hercules and IC Validator by Synopsys
- Diva, Dracula, Assura and PVS by Cadence Design Systems
- Quartz by Magma Design Automation
- Advanced Design System Design Rule Checker by Agilent's EEsof EDA division
- VERI and HVERI by Zeni EDA
- iDRC by JEDAT (Japan EDA Technologies)
- Some semiconductor companies have their own bespoke DRC software.
All these companies are working on versions that run on many CPUs, to dramatically reduce the elapsed time required.
Estimated annual sales of DRC software are in the $200 to $300 million range. The cost of a single site license of semiconductor EDA software, including DRC components, may exceed $1 million.
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