Revealing another piece of its DFM tool arsenal, Synopsys Inc. today detailed its new process-aware design-for-manufacturing (PA-DFM) tools, meant to analyze variability effects at the custom/analog ...

Chip design is starting to include more options to ensure chips behave reliably in the field, boosting the ability to tweak both hardware and software as chips age. The basic problem is that as ...

At 65/45 nm and below, a new world order is beginning to emerge that challenges all our previous experience in IC design and manufacture. Absolute design rules and the traditional signoff process are ...

Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at ...

DfX principles force designers and engineers to consider important manufacturability factors. How does it relate to additive manufacturing (Design for Additive Manufacturing)? Additive manufacturing ...

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 ...