SBIR Phase I: Automated Design-Rule Generator for Optimal Electronic Chip Manufacture

SBIR 第一阶段：用于优化电子芯片制造的自动设计规则生成器

• 批准号: 9761046
• 负责人: Ilya Staroselsky
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Cambridge Hydrodynamics Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-01 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9761046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Automated; Design; Rule; SBIR; Phase; Automated; Design; Rule

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project's goal is to establish the feasibility of an automated design rule generator to optimize the manufacturability of state-of-the-art electronic chip designs. The need for this tool is enhanced by recent developments in lithography, which suggest that it may be possible to reliably build chips with very small feature sizes. To achieve the goals of the proposed research will require the development of a database environment that encodes geometric similarity of features on chips consistent with hierarchical CAD designs. An analysis of the database to derive equivalency classes on which to generalize rules obtained from prototype studies, whether they be heuristic, experimental, or model-based. In Phase I, the feasibility of this approach will be demonstrated through application to prototypical designs. This tool will greatly expand the existing market for chip redesign software because it will allow fast, cost effective full chip redesign and optimization to enhance manufacturing yield. The market for this new product is estimated to be $20 million today and grow at the rate of 20-30% per year.

这个小型企业创新研究阶段I项目的目标是建立自动设计规则生成器的可行性，以优化最先进的电子芯片设计的生产性。 近期的光刻发展增强了对该工具的需求，这表明有可能可靠地建造具有很小特征大小的芯片。 为了实现拟议的研究的目标，将需要开发数据库环境，该数据库环境编码与层次CAD设计一致的芯片上特征的几何相似性。 对数据库的分析，以得出等效类别，以概括从原型研究获得的规则，无论它们是启发式，实验性还是基于模型。 在第一阶段，该方法的可行性将通过应用于原型设计来证明。 该工具将大大扩展芯片重新设计软件的现有市场，因为它将允许快速，具有成本效益的全芯片重新设计和优化以提高制造产量。 该新产品的市场估计今天为2000万美元，每年增长20-30％。