Trends in silicon process and packaging technologies require a tighter integration among manufacturing steps historically well distinct. It is becoming increasingly difficult to design and manufacture the most complex systems-on-a-chip (SOC) without a unified approach, which allows taking into account the package within the integrated circuits (IC) design flow.We present a new methodology, able to convey board-and package-related information into the classical IC design flow and vice versa. This is key to ensure the physical implementation is correct the first time, meeting high-density and high-speed design challenges.ICPack (IC & Package Design Integration) is a flexible and adaptable EDA environment, Java - and Web-based, which aims at reducing the number of iterations required to meet the design objectives in terms of quality, reliability, productivity and time to qualification.
Citation:
Anna Fontanelli, Luigi Arnone, Roberto Branca, Giorgio Mastrorocco, "Early Addressing IC and Package Relationship Allows an Overall Better Quality of Complex SOC," isqed, pp.121, First International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, 2000