EECS 298-11: CAD Seminar Wednesday, April 17, 1996, 5pm 531 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Design for Manufacturing--CAD Opportunities at IBM John Cohn Engineering Design Automation IBM Microelectronics Division Burlington, VT IBM Microelectronics (IMD) has been transformed from a captive technology supplier to the worlds 12th largest merchant semiconductor suplier in three short years. This transformation has made us increasingly sensitive to manufacturing cost, which has resulted in a new corporate wide emphasis on design for profitability. We in IMD's Electronic Design Automation (EDA) group have been enlisted to help drive the design-for-profit optimizations back into the design community. This talk will give an overview of our design-for-manufacturability trek. I'll begin by describing IBM's yield modeling, then I'll talk about our early efforts in getting yield prediction tools incorporated into IBM's design methodologies. I'll describe our early efforts to incorporate "yield aware" CAD tools into our design methodologies. Upcoming seminars: April 22 (Monday): Henny Sipma and Tomas Uribe, Stanford April 24: Fong Pong, Sun Microsystems April 26 (Friday): Peter Kopke, Cornell May 1: John Marren, Alex. Brown & Sons May 8: Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Univ. of Utah