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 ...

For the past couple of years, the Design Automation Conference (DAC) has been awash in vendors touting their software as design for manufacturing (DFM) tools. Although Gary Smith, Gartner's EDA ...

This week's Design Automation Conference will make it clear that the EDA industry is counting on design-for-manufacturability (DFM) for a much-needed boost. But the restricted design rules (RDRs) that ...