Santa Cruz, Calif. — Every nanometer chip requires dummy metal fill to reduce topology variations caused by chemical mechanical polishing. Startup Blaze DFM Inc. this week will roll out technology ...

Tools that use a purely geometric approach have no notion of timing or power. They blindly add fill shapes to sparse areas of the chip and, in doing so, may create timing violations by adding extra ...

You can fill any shape you have drawn in Adobe Illustrator with a photograph or other image by using a clipping mask. Clipping masks may seem confusing if you have ...

PowerPoint is a software that is used worldwide by users to create presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint is also can be used as a photo editor to do minor picture effects. In Microsoft PowerPoint, you ...

When inserting shapes into Publisher, you would color them to make them more appealing. Microsoft Publisher has various features that users can use to fill their shapes; users can add pictures, ...

Among the many steps involved with chip design, there is one known by the deceptively simple name of “fill.” Fill involves adding shapes or polygons to the design that are structural, not logical.

Fill has been around for many nodes, and was originally introduced to improve manufacturing results. The foundries learned that by managing density they were able to reduce wafer thickness variations ...

Using Adobe Photoshop, you can quickly fill-in shapes with any color you need, or any of Photoshop's predefined patterns, using the Paint Bucket tool. This applies to shapes you draw in Photoshop, as ...