With the emergence of SOC and increasing design complexity, layout finishing cope with new challenges. Current designs generate larger databases that become increasingly difficult to process. SOC and MCM are made up of blocks from different providers. This can yield to database consistency problems which need to be detected before tape-out.

Existing Multi-Purpose layout finishing tools, such as Design Rules Checkers are no longer able to address the issues of today's largest designs.

XYALIS focuses on two main flows of the layout finishing process:

Dummy/Metal filling to address Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) issues

Mask data preparation