Peoria business owner De Ingles enjoyed a childhood surrounded by family, campfires and the “simple pleasures of life” while growing up in rural Germantown Hills. It was that life that would inspire ...

Zoomed-in view of routed wires in a tiny fragment of an advanced-technology chip design produced by the UCSD-led "OpenROAD" project. An entire chip layout will consist of many thousands of such ...

Charles Pfeil is an Engineering Director in the Systems Design Division at Mentor Graphics. My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two ...

Designers of system on a chip (SOCs) use many design methodologies, flows, and tools to achieve timing closure. The current physical synthesis tools attack the problem of block-level timing ...