Design for manufacturing is a problem that has always plagued engineering teams. Product designs that look great as computer-aided design (CAD) often run into real-world obstacles when they reach the ...

True design for manufacturability (DFM) at 65-nm and below technology nodes has become more critical due to the shrinking of the critical dimensions of structures on the chip where the same absolute ...

MEMS devices require a clear design-for-manufacturability strategy that establishes concurrent-design principles through a common CAD framework. Detailed process and material-property characterization ...

Complex and critical components with micron tolerances and very little geometry to work with can pose difficult locking feature challenges (Image source: Accumold) Locking features are often essential ...

One of the major challenges with how designers and engineers consider DFM is a lack of transparency into the machine shops and manufacturing processes themselves. By building a holistic approach to ...

Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...

A sustainability engineer explains how she applies design for manufacturability methodology to low-resource ventures. As Machine Design’s content lead, Rehana Begg is tasked with elevating the voice ...

The broad adoption of virtual prototyping and physical synthesis tools have helped reduce the number of synthesis/place-and-route iterations. They also helped RTL coders avoid what they've long ...