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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Until now, design for manufacturing has been all about the individual processes. If it is to be successful, it must be applied on a broader scale. DFM processes such as lithography friendly design, ...
The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...
rapiddirect 's automated DfM feedback tool offers quality manufacturability tips for your parts production. This improved automated DfM tool provides a reliable analysis of your parts design for ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--May 15, 2006--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today unveils an extensive 65nm DFM Compliance Design Support Ecosystem that's driven by a manufacturing-based unified data ...
EDA companies great and small have jumped on the design-for-manufacturing (DFM) bandwagon enthusiastically. New DFM companies and solutions were abundant at DAC 2005. But is DFM a vision of the future ...
For the most part analog designers have avoided the issues of sub-wavelength design-for-manufacturing (DfM.) Most chips with primarily analog content are done in large geometries—180 nm or ...