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Introduction
1.1 Design for Manufacturability: Integrated Circuit
Manufacturing versus Industry Legacy
Since the 1960s, integrated circuit manufacturing (ICM) has been making
exponential progress, increasing the number of manufactured devices and
the value of the total available market (TAM). The rate of this progress was
such that it grew over a trillion times (12 orders of magnitude, 10
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time period, with a potential to expand believed to be at least another 7 years
onward from any given point in time [1]. In the process, ICM companies cre-
ated multiple rules, guidelines, and best practices, known as design for man-
ufacturabil ...