Yesterday I gave a brief overview of lithography and the need for DFM tools to calculate and verify what needs to go on the mask so that we end up with what we want on the die. The need to continue ...
Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the process of designing your product with the goal of making it easy to manufacture. It is a critical manufacturing tooling design and process development step ...
Advanced Development (AD) is the “sandbox” between classical research and development (R&D) and Product Development (PD). Living in this grey zone, engineers in AD are typically in a role where they ...
Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...
Minimizing the variety of machine tools and putting best-design practices online are a few ideas from one company's design-for-manufacturing program. Manufacturers in the company were first to suggest ...
A seldom-used EDA acronym, DFM (Design for Manufacturing), is being defined today as the missing link between design and manufacturing. DFM is more than the buzzword du jour, however. Increasing ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that it has launched a broad ecosystem with nine initial printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing ...
Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 9, 2008 - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today unveiled a new Unified Design For Manufacturing (UDFM) architecture that targets 32nm ...
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 ...
SAN DIEGO, March 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK: GTCH) ("GBT” or the “Company”), is seeking to develop a new EDA (Electronic Design Automation) technology to achieve IC’s ...
A lot is happening in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) these days. The body of DFM knowledge originated in the early 1970s and has been growing steadily ever since. Hitachi, Westinghouse, and Stuart ...