A glance of technology efforts for design-for- manufacturing in nano-scale CMOS processes

摘要

This paper overviews design for manufacturing (DFM) for IC design in nano-CMOS technologies. Process/device issues relevant to the manufacturability of ICs in advanced CMOS technologies will be presented first before an exploration on process/device modeling for DFM is done. The discussion also covers a brief introduction of DFM-aware of design flow and EDA efforts to better handle the design-manufacturing interface in very large scale IC design environment.