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Summary and Work Ahead
What Have We Learned from This Book?
First, evidence in the form of life examples was provided to show that histor-
ical background and recent industry trends are consistent with each other.
“New” DfM for IC products and legacy DfM for ME products can be com-
pared. Both are subject to the rule of 10 concurrent engineering, and CBC
principles, require RoI analysis with quantiable metrics such as yield, RPN,
or other discipline specic parameters. Because design for manufacturabil-
ity (DfM) is an extremely multidisciplinary effort of high importance to suc-
cess of products in the marketplace it is subject to eng ...