Will DFM become the lingua franca of the chip world?

摘要

Mike Gianfagna likens chipmak-ing to building a high-rise. The only problem with the comparison is that the hardhats do a better job with their steel, bricks, and mortar than the bunnysuits with their silicon, chemicals, and gases in one key respect. "An analogy I like to use is: If commercial construction was done the way chips were built, half of the buildings would fall down," asserts Gianfagna, the CEO of Aprio Technologies in Santa Clara, CA. The reason? The design and manufacturing sides of the industry have the high-tech equivalent of a Mars-Venus problem.