San Francisco — By now, design-for-manufacturability has pervaded the semiconductor industry's consciousness and grabbed its fair share of attention everywhere, from the press room to the boardroom.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Design-for-manufacturing (DFM) challenges are severe and threatening, but they won't be solved through massive changes to companies' existing design flows, according to executives ...

DFM enhancers that operate on post-layout GDSII files are no longer viable for 65-nm designs. The way to reach acceptable performance and yield goals is to make the entire design flow aware of DFM. By ...