Concurrent design of manufacturable integrated circuits

6th Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1010-1018

  Lokanathan, Arun N ^a   Brockman, Jay B ^a   Renaud, John E ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CONCURRENT DESIGN; CONCURRENT SUBSPACE OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION PROCESS; SIMULTANEOUS DESIGNS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 84982318831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-4094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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