Design for manufacturing (DFM) in submicron VLSI design /
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[College Station, Tex.] :
[Texas A&M University],
[2010]
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| Online Access: | Link to OAK Trust copy |
| Abstract: | As VLSI technology scales to 65nm and below, traditional communication between design and manufacturing becomes more and more inadequate. Gone are the days when designers simply pass the design GDSII Ơ̐¹le to the foundry and expect very good man℗Ơufacturing and parametric yield. This is largely due to the enormous challenges in the manufacturing stage as the feature size continues to shrink. Thus, the idea of DFM (Design for Manufacturing) is getting very popular. Even though there is no universally accepted deƠ̐¹nition of DFM, in my opinion, one of the major parts of DFM is to bring manufacturing information into the design stage in a way that is understood by designers. Consequently, designers can act on the information to improve both manufacturing and parametric yield. In this dissertation, I will present several attempts to reduce the gap between design and manufacturing communities: Alt-PSM aware standard cell designs, printability improve℗Ơment for detailed routing and the ASIC design Ơ̐²ow with litho aware static timing analysis. Experiment results show that we can greatly improve the manufacturability of the designs and we can reduce design pessimism signiƠ̐¹cantly for easier design closure. |
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| Item Description: | "Major Subject: Computer Engineering" Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |