Focus on manufacturing microsystems as a further step of appropriate CAD design

Silicon microsystems are one of the most recently developed branches of microelectronics. They are connected with very fast microelectronic technology development, increasing accuracy of technological process, which allows manufacturing in the nanometer ranges. There are some standards of CAD software that offer a wide range of tools necessary to design the silicon chips. As an example the CADENCE environment is presented in this paper which is one of the most popular standards nowadays. Of course the designer has to respect some technological rules during the design process. Every physical technology process is connected with appropriate design kit in which the design rules of the technology are enclosed.