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

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第一阶段项目的目标是建立一个自动化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可制造性。光刻技术的最新发展增强了对这种工具的需求，这表明有可能可靠地制造具有非常小特征尺寸的芯片。为了实现拟议研究的目标，将需要开发一个数据库环境，将芯片上的特征的几何相似性编码为与分层CAD设计一致的。对数据库进行分析以得出等价类，根据这些等价类来概括从原型研究中获得的规则，无论这些规则是启发式的、实验性的还是基于模型的。在第一阶段，将通过对原型设计的应用来证明这种方法的可行性。这一工具将极大地扩大芯片重新设计软件的现有市场，因为它将允许快速、成本效益高的全面芯片重新设计和优化，以提高制造产量。据估计，目前这种新产品的市场规模为2000万美元，并以每年20%-30%的速度增长。