As IC process geometries scale down to the nanometer era, the industry faces severe challenges of manufacturing limitations. For the imperfect manufacturing process, physical design for manufacturability has played an essential role in resolution and thus yield enhancement to guarantee yield. In this paper, we introduce three major challenges arising from the nanometer process technology and survey major existing techniques for handling the challenges in physical design for manufacturability.
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Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2011 IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on
Date of Conference: 7-10 Aug. 2011