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By Kesmat Shahin How many times, as you traversed across design stages and ran countless iterations, have you wished that you had a superpower to let you accomplish 100 things at the same time? Oh, and maybe a magic wand, so you could find and fix just actionable errors without even debugging? Unfortunately, superpowers and magic wands are pretty hard to come by in integrated circuit (IC) design, but with Calibre nmLVS Recon early design layout vs. schematic (LVS) checking, S