Introduction
The front-end EDA tools help develop the IC design and verify its correctness. EDA tools have replaced many of the most tedious manual design tasks. Table 6.1 shows the major EDA programs with the FE tools highlighted.
Other tools for areas such as signal integrity and design for manufacturing are used in both the front-end and back-end. We discuss those in the chapter on back-end tools.
Let us join Nora of Sandbox, Inc., as she talks with Luigi, a logic designer at Federal Semiconductor.
| Nora: | Thanks for meeting me for lunch, Luigi. Sandbox has many tools, so I am trying to understand what they all do. |
| Luigi: | Glad to help, Nora. You said you wanted to discuss the front-end tools. Why don't we start with design capture? |
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