Designing for yield is an afterthought in today's design flows, whether it is digital, analog/RF or mixed-signal. The lack of design for yield tools has forced the digital world to accept overly ...

Yield ramp has historically been the fab's burden. The yield ramp cycle was cleanly partitioned into three phases: process development, pilot production and volume production (Fig. 1). 1. Industry has ...

When building one-off projects, it’s common to draw up a plan on a sheet of paper or in CAD, or even wing it and hope for the best outcome without any formal plans. Each of these design philosophies ...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) associate Neil Katz describes his approach to crafting facades as involving a “computational design” methodology. Parametric modeling can be the means to several ends, ...

New integration and patterning schemes used in 3D memory and logic devices have created manufacturing and yield challenges. Industrial focus has shifted from the scaling of predictable unit processes ...