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Design for manufacturability (DFM) is the general engineering art of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture. The basic idea exists in almost all engineering disciplines, but of course the details differ widely depending on the manufacturing technology.

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    • Design for manufacturability (DFM) is the general engineering art of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture. The basic idea exists in almost all engineering disciplines, but of course the details differ widely depending on the manufacturing technology.

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturing)

      (Note: The Electronic Engineers Toolbox provides an alternative set of featured links for this word at http://www.cera2.com/dfm.htm)

      Featured Links:

      Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering

      This book shows how to design products for all aspects of manufacturability and use multifunctional product development teams and Concurrent Engineering principles to: DESIGN FOR LOW COST. The book shows how to actually design low-cost products. Chapters 1, 2,and 9 show how to minimize the 80% of a product’s cost that is committed by the design and hard to remove later. Chapters 3 and 8 show how to optimize the concept/architecture stage...
      http://www.amazon.com

      Design for Manufacturability

      General personal website on DFM, not specific to electronics nor integrated circuits.
      http://www.design4manufacturability.com/

      Design for Manufacturability

      In the past, products have been designed that could not be produced. Products have been released for production that could only be made to work in the model shop when prototypes were built and adjusted by highly skilled technicians. Effective product development must go beyond the traditional steps of acquiring and implementing product and process design technology as the solution. It must address management practices to consider customer...
      http://www.npd-solutions.com/dfm.html

      Olympus SOC

      The Olympus-SoC™ IC implementation solution is purpose-built to address the performance, capacity, time-to-market, and variability challenges at advanced nodes. With full support for low-power design styles, signoff-quality timing analysis and optimization, and DFM-aware routing, Olympus-SoC delivers the highest quality layouts with fast turnaround and rapid closure.
      http://www.mentor.com

      Calibre DFM

      Building on our powerful, production-proven Hyperscaling architecture, we deliver the broadest, most accurate, and best performing DFM solutions in the industry. Because the Calibre platform is built on standard open database interfaces, it brings production-proven DFM capabilities to our customers independent of the design creation environment they use.
      http://www.mentor.com

      Tessent

      The Mentor Graphics Tessent™ product suite provides comprehensive silicon test and yield analysis solutions that address the challenges of manufacturing test, debug, and yield ramp for today’s SoCs. Built on the foundation of the best-in-class solutions for each test discipline, Tessent brings them together in a powerful test flow that ensures total chip coverage.
      http://www.mentor.com

      Calibre nmOPC

      The Calibre nmOPC tool offers best-in-class accuracy, speed, and cost of ownership. Like all Calibre family products, Calibre nmOPC runs on the fully integrated Calibre hierarchical geometry engine uniquely enabling a fully integrated design to mask flow with a unified command language. Calibre nmOPC also supports the OASIS output format to minimize output file size. Streamlined hierarchical processing algorithm in Calibre nmOPC enables the tool to take advantage of natural design hierarchy to improve turn around time, computational efficiency, and throughput compared to flat processing tools.
      http://www.mentor.com

      Design for manufacturability (Integrated Circuits)

      Design for manufacturability (DFM) refers to the general engineering art of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture. The basic idea exists in almost all engineering disciplines, but of course the details differ wildly depending on the manufacturing technology. Here are examples: Design for manufacturability for integrated circuits.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability_%28IC%29

      Blaze DFM White Papers

      "Filling and Slotting: Analysis and Algorithms" * "IC Layout and Manufacturability: Critical Links and Design Flow Implications" * "New and Exact Filling Algorithms for Layout Density Control" * "New Multilevel and Hierarchical Algorithms for Layout Density Control" * "Optimal Phase Conflict Removal for Layout of Dark Field Alternating Phase Shifting Masks"
      http://www.blaze-dfm.com/technology/research_papers.html

      Calibre nmDRC

      Total cycle time is on the rise due to more complex and larger designs, higher error counts and more verification iterations. Calibre® nmDRC responds to the need for reduced cycle time with revolutionary new capabilities that differentiate Calibre nmDRC substantially from traditional DRC tools including dynamic results visualization, equation-based DRC, direct database access and integrated DFM analysis.
      http://www.mentor.com

      Explanation: these links are provided as part of our EE glossary project, which seeks to identify the most prominent keywords in embedded systems, embedded software, realtime and rtos, dsp (digital signal processing), system-on-a-chip, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and other constituent elements for embedded systems. While we seek to keep most of the links up-to-date, the user is refered to other primary electronic-based search sites such as: cera2.com, embedded.com, or EDN Magazine. If you have any suggestions of links or definitions, please email!

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