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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 The semiconductor and EDA industries have poured millions of dollars to develop new and promising technologies for the emerging design-for-manufacturing (DFM) sector. One of the ...

As the Semiconductor industry continues to march down the road to ever smaller geometries, one has to question at what point the current design methodologies and paradigms will break. Or maybe, more ...

As long as there has beena semiconductor industry, each new generation of chips has been characterized by a drive for finer features. This drive has brought increased integration, enhanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

The year is 2006. Everywhere you look, the phrase “Design for Manufacturing” or its acronym, DFM, is being brandished as if it were the banner of some brave new army of chip designers. “DFM is the ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it ...