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 ...

It was a steamy morning in late July when I drove into Manhattan for a breakfast meeting with Chuck Byers of TSMC and Anna del Rosario of Altera. Ostensibly, the meeting was to discuss TSMC's ongoing ...

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 ...

Design for Manufacturability (DfM) is a proactive process to design parts, components, or products for ease of manufacturing with an end goal of making a better product at a lower overall cost. It is ...

Whether you’re using a leading-edge process node to manufacture a very large system-on-chip (SoC), or using an established node for automotive or Internet of Things (IoT) electronics, critical area ...

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 ...

Early-stage companies face difficult trade-off challenges when transitioning from design and build of one to two units to larger-scale production. At high volumes (i.e., 10,000+ units), the Design for ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The development of robust process models that can easily be integrated into the design flow is the single most important step toward helping the semiconductor industry overcome the ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Pursuing a new breed of design-for-manufacturability (DFM) tools for 45-nanometer ICs, Synopsys Inc. this week will announce Seismos and Paramos, two “process-aware” tools that ...

As semiconductor components continue to shrink, the challenges associated with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) increase. The complexity of the IC design and ...

Cadence Design for Manufacturing Gains Momentum as Fujitsu Selects “In-Design†Technology to Help Ensure Yield, Predictability and Faster Path to Silicon Realization SAN JOSE, Calif., 19 Sep 2011 - ...

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 ...