THURSDAY OCTOBER 25


OPENING SESSION (Thursday 4-5pm)


Welcoming Remarks

        General Chair – Yervant Zorian, Virage Logic

        Program Chair – Andrew B. Kahng, UC San Diego


Plenary Talk P.1. The IMPACT Research Program at the University of California – Addressing DFM&Y at 22nm

Prof. Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley


Plenary Talk P.2. New DFM Wave to Overcome Variability Crisis in Sub-45nm Technology Nodes

Prof. Andrzej Strojwas, PDF Solutions and CMU


SESSION 1: Connecting Test & Diagnosis to Yield Optimization (Thursday 5-7pm)


1.1 On the Correlation between Yield and DFM through Diagnosis

M. Sonza Reorda, P. Bernardi, F. Melchiori, R. Sirtori, V. Tancorre, and D. Appello,

Politecnico di Torino and STMicroelectronics, Italy


1.2 Bridging Test, Diagnosis and DFM

Anne Gattiker, IBM Corporation


1.3 Yield Acceleration based on Programmable Test & Diagnosis

Y. Zorian, G. Torjyan, D. Nenni, H. Nalbandian, Virage Logic


1.4 Mixed Test Structure for Soft and Hard Defect Detection

Jean-Michael Portal, Laboratoire Materiaux et Microelectronique


1.5 A Built-In Self-Repair for NAND Flash Memory

Yu-Ying Hsiao and Cheng-Wen Wu, National Tsing Hua University


1.6 A Redesign Technique to Improve Manufacturing Yield by Exploiting Error Tolerance

Doochul Shin and Sandeep K. Gupta, University of Southern California


EVENING RECEPTION (Thursday 7-9pm)


FRIDAY OCTOBER 26


SESSION 2: PHYSICAL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURABILITY VERIFICATION (Friday 8-10am)


2.1 DFM Optimization of Standard Cells Core Libraries

Fabio Melchiori and Roberto Sirtori, STMicroelectronics


2.2 Regularity-Enhanced Layout of Standard Cells

Hidetoshi Onodera and Hiroaki Muta, Kyoto University


2.3 VariTamer: A Heterogeneous Platform for Deciding the Best Layout Placement in Physical Implementation

Jwu-E Chen, H.W. Huang, C.Y. Ho, and H.C. Liang, National Central University and Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan


2.4 Via-Configurable Transistor Array: A Regular Design Technique to Improve ICs Yield

Marc Pons, Francesc Moll, Antonio Rubio, Jaume Abella, Xavier Vera, and Antonio Gonzalez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Intel Barcelona


2.5 Flexible Model-Based DRC and DFM Verification

Fedor G. Pikus, Mentor Graphics, Inc.


SESSION 3 (INVITED): DFM&Y FUTURES FOR EDA (Friday 10:30am-12noon)


3.1 Physical Signoff -- Bringing DFM Signoff into the Flow

John Lee, Magma Design Automation


3.2 DFM: From Buzz to Norm

Joe Sawicki, Mentor Graphics


3.3 How to Push Polygons to the Limit and Still Yield

Dipu Pramanik, Cadence Design Systems


SESSION 4: VARIABILITY AND YIELD (Friday 1pm – 3pm)


4.1 A Designer's Approach to Modeling Process Variability

Dejan Markovic, UCLA EE Department


4.2 DFM Technology Roadmap Including Dimensional Variability

Juan Antonio Carballo, Praveen Elakkumanan, and Sani Nassif, Argon Venture Partners, IBM East Fishkill, and IBM Austin Research Laboratory


4.3 A Systematic Variation Aware Circuit Simulation Engine

Shayak Banerjee, Praveen Elakkumanan, Duresti Chidambarrao, James Culp, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, and Michael Orshansky, University of Texas at Austin and IBM East Fishkill


4.4 Statistics and Digital Design: Exploiting the Corners

Kambiz Samadi, Mark Nakamoto, and Riko Radojcic, UC San Diego and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies


4.5 Non-Gaussian Statistical Timing Analysis Using Second-Order Polynomial Fittings

Lerong Cheng, Jinjun Xiong, and Lei He, UCLA and IBM Research


4.6 On the Opportunity to Improve System Yield with Multi-Core Architectures

Yury Markovsky and John Wawrzynek, University of California, Berkeley


PANEL: From David to Goliath: The Role of Startups in the Evolution of DFM (Friday 3-5pm)


Organizer/Moderator:

Juan-Antonio Carballo, Argon Venture Partners

Panelists:

Bob Gleason, Luminescent
Ara Markosian, Ponte Solutions
Frank Schellenberg, Mentor Graphics
Atul Sharan, Cadence
Clive Wu, Blaze DFM