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Verification of ESD structures and other protection circuits is often a time consuming and tedious task. How do you do it? Complex DRC rules? An assortment of specialized rule decks? Home-brew tools? Recently a colleague and I published a paper which used one of the Mentor tools (Calibre® PERC) to help with this ESD checking. If you’re interested, the paper is available on-line here: New Flow for Automating Verification of ESD Design Ruleshttp://www.soccentral.com/results.asp?EntryID=29425 Also of interest is the ESDA Symposium in the Los Angeles area (Anaheim to be precise) over the coming week. I’d encourage you to pop in if you can. Last year’s event was our first at the ESDA Symposium, and it was very good. Lots of great...