Achieving First time Silicon is a necessity to meet the Organization’s bottom line. From the CAD perspective, ensuring quality in the collateral that is supplied to the designers plays a very crucial role in this objective. This paper attempts to capture the evolution of process of achieving high quality Process Design Kits (PDKs).
Index Terms:
PDK, Quality, Test structures, Regression, categorization, Bugs, Matrix
Citation:
Sridhar Joshi, Ravi Perumal, Kamesh Gadepally, Mark Young, "An Approach for a Comprehensive QA Methodology for the PDKs," isqed, pp.480-483, 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (isqed 2008), 2008