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 ...

Advanced Development (AD) is the “sandbox” between classical research and development (R&D) and Product Development (PD). Living in this grey zone, engineers in AD are typically in a role where they ...

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 ...

Today, the industry has what could prove to be a better solution to the quantity conundrum: automate the office with instant ...

There are have been numerous papers written on the techniques that can be employed during integrated circuit (IC) design to achieve better overall manufacturability and yield. These ...

High-power lasers, cell phones that record 3-D videos and computing systems with enough processing power to map the human genome are hot technologies that need to be kept cool. Without effective heat ...

EDA companies great and small have jumped on the design-for-manufacturing (DFM) bandwagon enthusiastically. New DFM companies and solutions were abundant at DAC 2005. But is DFM a vision of the future ...

Design for manufacturing (DFM) as a concept seems both self-explanatory and obvious. After all, in a corporate context, the entire point of designing something is to manufacture and sell it. Because ...

Minimizing the variety of machine tools and putting best-design practices online are a few ideas from one company's design-for-manufacturing program. Manufacturers in the company were first to suggest ...

Yesterday I gave a brief overview of lithography and the need for DFM tools to calculate and verify what needs to go on the mask so that we end up with what we want on the die. The need to continue ...