Chip Design Suing 45nm Processes Requires a Holistic Approach to Planning and Implementation
Designing chips in 45nm processes requires more planning, extra analysis, and complex trade-offs to reduce die area while maintaining or gaining performance, yield, and reliability. In addition, the high cost of fabs and corresponding consolidation of manufacturing to a few companies means chip designers must achieve product differentiation through design rather than manufacturing. The results are that more of the burden of a chip’s success falls on the designers, and that all facets that contribute to that success—functionality, power, manufacturability– need to be incorporated into the design from the start. Chip designers can tackle these challenges most effectively through an integrated, holistic approach that enables consistent inclusion of manufacturing data and delivers productivity gains for the entire chip design flow.
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