Owing to rapid changes of IC technologies, traditional design rule checking is becoming inadequate to assure satisfactory levels of IC manufacturability. This paper describes a new computer supported design analysis environment that improves the efficiency of manufacturability assessment of new products. This environment, called MAPEX 2, is described in the paper along with some of its key procedures and algorithms. Illustrations of MAPEX 2 applications and performance figures are provided as well.
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