Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: Calibre nmOPC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 04 December 2006
Next-generation OPC solution from Mentor
Graphics
Calibre nmOPC delivers accuracy and performance with dramatic reduction in cost of ownership for RET flow
Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced the Calibre nmOPC, a third-generation optical proximity correction (OPC) tool that expands the Calibre arsenal of resolution enhancement technology (RET) products for sub-65 nanometre process technologies The Calibre nmOPC tool and the companion OPC verification tool, Calibre OPCverify (announced earlier this year), usher in a new era of computational lithography by delivering superior simulation accuracy with the highest performance and lowest cost of ownership in the industry
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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