At advanced nodes, running design rule checks is only part of the physical verification challenge. The other problem starts when the run produces its results.
For large SoCs at 2 nm, 3 nm and similar process nodes, early full-chip DRC runs can generate hundreds of millions or even billions of violations. At that scale, engineers are no longer simply working through an error list. They need to determine which violations share a common root cause, which indicate systematic integration problems, and which can be deprioritized while the design is still evolving. Traditional batch-oriented debug makes this particularly painful because analysis may not begin until the DRC run and result processing are complete. Calibre Vision AI is designed around this result-analysis bottleneck.
