Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Manufacturing moves into design flow

"After spending time with VC companies reviewing business plans for design-for-manufacturability (DFM) startups, Atul Sharan and Yao-Ting Wang decided they could do a better job themselves. So they left the VC world and started Clear Shape Technologies Inc., promising a new approach to modeling IC manufacturing effects.
Clear Shape is preparing technology that will bring 'design manufacturability check' models into the IC design flow, along with tools to help optimize designs so they won't have problems with optical proximity correction (OPC) or manufacturing. The company promises a fast, accurate and secure way to predict the impact of systematic manufacturing variations without forcing the designer to run OPC or to disrupt established design flows. "

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