Si2 Announces New Coalition to Enhance Design-for-Manufacturability; Design-to-Manufacturing Coalition Formed to Create Open Standards.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2004 Silicon Integration Initiative “Si2” redirects here. For other uses, see Si2 (disambiguation). Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is a non-profit consortium of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA, and manufacturing companies, focused on improving the way integrated circuits are (Si2) today announced the formation of the Design-to-Manufacturing Coalition (DTMC DTMC Discrete-Time Markov Chain DTMC Detroit Together Men's Chorus (Detroit, MI) DTMC Design to Manufacturing Coalition DTMC DTM Corporation DTMC Deer Trail Mining Company, LLC DTMC Delta Tributaries Mercury Council ). This new group will address the increasing cost and complexities associated with design for manufacturability by creating open standards to unify IC design and manufacturing information, initially addressing lithography issues. Charter member companies for the Phase 1 launch include: Applied Materials, Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , DuPont Photomasks, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, Photronics and Sagantec. Membership is open, and other companies are encouraged to join the DTMC. The DTMC's business objective is to speed photomask and wafer manufacturing ramps and improve yields through the communication of more detailed and comprehensive design, mask and wafer process information. As a result, the coalition expects to lower manufacturing costs and shorten cycle times for IC manufacturers. "The DTMC vision is to develop an open standard application program interface (API) to communicate more complete information about the IC design intent and the characteristics of the manufacturing equipment and processes between the supply chain partners. Applied Materials sees this as a critical benefit to our customers as we strive to reduce the cycle time between design inception and high-volume, high-yield manufacturing," says John Madok of Applied Materials, the newly elected chairman of the DTMC. "The intrinsic couplings permeating sub-90nm processes have created an economic imperative for the semiconductor industry to shift to the `system view,' because isolated flows for design and manufacturing are growing more inefficient," states Steve Schulz, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Si2. "The companies committed to the DTMC recognize this as an industry problem that can only be solved through broad cross-industry collaboration. The result will be new standard interfaces, models and semantics that permit streamlined data integration, opening up new opportunities for competitive solutions and a more efficient industry." About the Design-to-Manufacturing Coalition (DTMC) The DTMC is an alliance of leading companies in the semiconductor industry formed to address the increasing cost and complexities associated with design for manufacturability. The goal of this coalition is to develop open standards under the governance and bylaws of Si2. For more information about DTMC, visit www.si2.org/oa-udm. Member companies are: Applied Materials Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ), Cadence Design Systems (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), DuPont Photomasks (Nasdaq:DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) A Microsoft programming interface that allowed a DOS-extended program to run cooperatively under Windows 3.x. It was not compatible with VCPI, the first DOS extender standard. ), Freescale Semiconductor, LSI Logic (NYSE:LSI), Photronics (Nasdaq:PLAB) and Sagantec. About Si2 Si2 is a non-profit organization of industry-leading EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. , semiconductor and electronic system design companies focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems. Powerful economic and market forces are fueling demand for rapid integration and delivery of single chip solutions in a multi-vendor environment. Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable collaboration through a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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