D&R Industry Articles (June 2018)

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Layout Database File Control: The Missing Link

As the exchange of layout descriptions between teams involved in modern integrated circuit (IC) development and production increase in terms of rate, value and size, the need for control and reliability increases as well. While regular integrity control –– cyclic redundancy checks, cryptographic hash functions and error correcting codes, for example –– can be used, they quickly show their limits.