Title :
Productivity increase in process and device simulation throughput for integrated circuit manufacturing companies
Author :
Saha, Samar ; Lindorfer, Phililpp ; Gadepally, Bhaskar
Author_Institution :
Nat. Semicond. Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes methodologies to improve process and device simulation throughput for integrated circuit manufacturing companies. Presently available hardware, process and device simulation software, and their usage in a typical semiconductor company were considered as reference to estimate the improvement in computational efficiency and the associated cost. In a company of N active users, the estimated improvement in computational efficiency with respect to the present performance is shown to be more than N and 5N times in an uninterrupted and a distributed computing environment respectively
Keywords :
circuit analysis computing; computational complexity; discrete event simulation; human resource management; integrated circuit manufacture; integrated circuit modelling; manufacturing data processing; computational efficiency; cost; device simulation throughput; distributed computing environment; hardware; integrated circuit manufacturing companies; performance; process simulation throughput; productivity; software; uninterrupted computing environment; Circuit simulation; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Costs; Distributed computing; Hardware; Integrated circuit manufacture; Integrated circuit modeling; Productivity; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Conference, 1995. Global Engineering Management: Emerging Trends in the Asia Pacific., Proceedings of 1995 IEEE Annual International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2799-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.1995.524617
