IC Development Cycle

This live seminar equips marketing professionals, program managers, executives and other key decision-makers with an industry-insider’s grasp of the IC development cycle, from product concept to box stock. By combining live instruction and team exercises with 3-D, animated graphics, this two-day seminar breaks through the jargon barrier, presenting technical concepts in plain, everyday language. This course relates the nuts and bolts of semiconductor technology to the real-world business, pricing and selling units, and makes realistic commitments to OEM/ODMs.

Beginning with the basics, it describes each phase in IC Development flow. It begins with defining the architectural features their competitive edge, to how engineers design in benchmark-busting performance, to fabricating the design in silicon. It explores key trade-offs, clarifies the critical roles of System Engineering and Program Management, and clearly explains terms like superscalar pipeline, NUMA, cache, cache hit, tape-out, reticle fix and rocket lot.

We offer this and all courses as On Site Training


WHAT THE COURSE COVERS:
  • How a typical IC product goes through product definition, design, debug, and production
  • How the same basic IC design is configured, fused, binned, and retargeted into a cascade of products
  • Why higher speed means more power and lower yield also how CD retargeting enhances revenue
  • What exactly is a desktop equivalent and how it helps determine pricing for a mobile product
  • What impact a major and minor mask revisions can have on cycle time


WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
  • Professionals who need to make critical decisions, interpret data, build roadmaps, and engage with customers based on a firm grasp of the driving factors behind semiconductor economics. This includes shrinking feature size, yield roll-off, power/performance trade-offs, product bining, wafer-fab metrics like DPW, SPW and DTS.
  • Those who find their corporate role increasingly expanding beyond the traditional limits of their core competency.

This is a 2 day course and each student will get a comprehensive set of course notes.



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