if you are designing a plastic part, you will need to keep in mind the importance of the tool design. Meaning if your tool is not properly designed then the part that comes from the tool will have a number of problems. For the manufacturing feasibility of a plastics part, you need to...
Product or design complexity: Again, DFM is all about simplifying – meaning the more complex a design, the higher the risk of a costly (or less efficient) production process. Material and component availability: How easy or difficult – in terms of both cost and time – will it be to ...
In this article, I will offer a view of how designers can be served by a design for manufacturing (DFM) mindset to help assure first-pass success. I will also provide a glimpse of the potential future of board level design along with a discussion...
However, as leading-edge manufacturing moves through the 90nm node to 65nm, it takes on new meaning. It is expected that DFM will evolve from its present state of checking a design against well-defined rules and adding the necessary resolution enhancement techniques enhancements to the mask ...
‘Design for manufacturability’ has been part of semiconductor design for some time. However, as leading-edge manufacturing moves through the 90nm node to 65nm, it takes on new meaning. Because of the issues cited above, it is no longer acceptable to generate a new design and mask set, ru...
Acquisition Will Enable Tighter Integration With DFM and Manufacturing Tools to Optimize Yield and Increase Predictability PRNewswire-FirstCall MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of...
This is not an electrically incorrect design choice, meaning you've created a closed circuit. I’ve seen boards with bypass/decoupling caps soldered directly to a grounded copper pour on the surface layer, and the board worked fine, although I'm not sure how they managed to get the compone...
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Each Bit has its own meaning as follows: Common Status: 0x000000FF (bit 0-7)1st byte Hex: Bit Position: Decimal: Explanation: 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x04 0x08 0x10 0x20 0x40 0x80 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 if we are a Slave/Server 1 if we are a Master/Client 2 connected (0 not...
Arguing that the term had already drifted from any technically useful meaning, Sherwani quoted industry commentator John Cooley as saying that DFM had come to stand for dollars for marketing.WilsonRonElectronic Engineering Times (01921541)