Manufacturing, test to designers: We need to talk: Semicon West speakerrs call for dialogue on key issues

摘要

San Francisco - Experts from across the IC production and test industries, from mask makers to developers of automated test equipment, punctuated the Semicon West conference here last week with calls for a new dialogue with IC design teams. The traditional interfaces among design, manufacturing and test are rupturing under the pressure of increasing complexity, these voices warned, and the industry is rapidly approaching a time when only cooperation across those formidable boundaries will get a chip into production. Today the industry relies on formalized interfaces among design, mask making, production and test. For example a GDS-2 tape communicates the design to the mask shop. A set of design rules communicates the process requirements to the design team.