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Bidirectional Design Data Exchange and Technical Query Management with IPC-2581

Last month’s column talked about a simpler way to exchange stackups with manufacturing partners. This month, continuing the ...
EDN

DFM debated as a ‘weapon of mass design’

SAN FRANCISCO — The more than abused DFM acronym reared its ugly head again at a leading design engineering forum. The consensus is that Design for Manufacturing has its place in the chip design world ...
EDN

Using DFM Routing to Impact Design Performance and Yield

There are have been numerous papers written on the techniques that can be employed during integrated circuit (IC) design to achieve better overall manufacturability and yield. These ...
Design-Reuse

Clear Shape and UMC Release DFM-Driven Design Flow

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan, November 27, 2006 - Clear Shape Technologies, Inc., a leader in variability-aware analysis and optimization solutions, and UMC (NYSE: UMC; TSE: 2303), a ...
Electronic Design

Optimizing the integration of DFM and P&R

The Calibre direct to DEF output option enables fast, accurate back-annotation of DFM objects to P&R applications without any time-consuming database conversions. DFM tools can help shorten design ...
Design-Reuse

Fujitsu Standardizes on Cadence DFM Technologies for 28nm ASIC and Mixed-Signal Designs

Cadence Design for Manufacturing Gains Momentum as Fujitsu Selects “In-Design” Technology to Help Ensure Yield, Predictability and Faster Path to Silicon Realization SAN JOSE, Calif., 19 Sep 2011 -- ...
Electronic Design

Design Flows Must Evolve Toward DFM Awareness

Our current concept of DFM is not really manufacturing-aware. With designs scaling down to 130 nm and below and process complexity increasing correspondingly, the impact of process-induced variation ...