
28 Semiconductors: Integrated Circuit Design for Manufacturability
only be higher than the direct cost of development and manufacturing but
also exceed the entire product revenue.
The rule of 10 helps hierarchize DfM implementation across key areas
of interest: design setup, yield, testability, functionality, and reliability, the
rst ones having the highest visibility to the product line, but of the lowest
importance to the customer, and vice versa. But, to satisfy the customer and
ensure low product cost, one should work backward from the end of product
life throughout its reliability and performance in the eld, to its functional ...