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It was a grueling interview (not!). My prospective manager sat me down in front of his desk, looked at my resume, which contained a summary of my classwork to date (I was up for an intern position), looked up and asked, “Do you like hardware or software better?”
“Both, I guess. I’d say 50-50″, was [...]

I’ve just been searching around for DFM related material, and I keep seeing DFT being mentioned as a critical component of DFM, so I’ll just keep on mentioning it here.
The latest article I find (and I guess it’s not new, but it’s dated 7/6/2006, which is new enough) is by Ron Wilson at EDN, and [...]

So I was searching around for some info on DFM lately, and I ran across an interview of Walter Ng of Chartered Semiconductor at Peggy Aycinena’s EDA Confidential. He had some good points about DFM, DFY, and the lack of clear definitions and such. Then it came to the question of how DFT [...]

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) delves into a few different disciplines within the chip design arena. It involves not only the designers, but the EDA vendors and manufacturers. The heart of it seems to be the physical design aspect. Maybe in one sentence, DFM seeks to maximize manufacturing yield by following certain physical [...]

It was a couple of days of transformation and switching around, but we’re back up for business with our new ISP, ‘LeoMedia’ and ready to continue the fun. I think I need another week or so of habitual posting, getting into the groove, and then I’d like to let more people in on [...]