Better layouts in less time: AMD and the Calibre RealTime Custom interface at 20nm and below

AMD reported significant productivity improvement on an actual 20nm product design when using the Calibre RealTime Custom interface to fix DRC errors. The Calibre RealTime Custom interface not only provided immediate DRC feedback, enabling a rapid trial-and-error debugging process, but also helped designers learn the new 20nm DRC rules as they iterated to find the optimum resolution for each DRC violation.