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Have you ever been on a project in which all of your team members have just gone through an intense week of design pattern training? It's painful, as the project ends up becoming some type of sadistic ...

Pattern matching (PM) was first introduced as the semiconductor industry began to shift from simple one-dimensional rule checks to the two-dimensional checks required by sub-resolution lithography.