Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...
The process of creating a PCB is complex and involves a large number of steps beginning with the Layout stage and culminating in the assembly of the boards. The entire process goes through ...
Process design kits consist of a set of files that typically contain descriptions of the basic building blocks of the process. They are expressed, algorithmically, as Pcells. These descriptions are ...