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Discover How to Launch and Succeed as a Fabless Semiconductor Firm Fabless Semiconductor Implementation takes you step-by-step through the challenges faced by fabless firms in the development of integrated circuits. This expert guide examines the potential pitfalls of IC implementation in the rapidly growing fabless segment of the semiconductor industry and elaborates how to overcome these difficulties. It provides a comprehensive overview of the issues that executives and technical professionals encounter at fabless companies.
Filled with over 150 on-target illustrations, this business-building tool presents a clear picture of the entire lifecycle of a fabless enterprise, describing how to envision and execute fabless IC implementation.
Inside This Comprehensive Guide to Fabless IC Design-
Define and specify the productUnderstand the customer requirements, the value chain, and the supply chainSelect the right implementation approach, including "make" vs. "buy"Choose the best technologies and supply chainImplement IC design, fabrication, and manufacturingBuild the operations infrastructure to meet cost and quality requirementsProgram-manage the distributed supply chain
List of contents
Preface
Why This Book?
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Industry Perspectives
Chapter 2. The Big Picture
Chapter 3. Lifecycle of a Fabless IC Company
Chapter 4. Selecting the Implementation Approach
Chapter 5. Selecting the Technologies
Chapter 6. Implementing the COT Approach
Chapter 7. Managing Cost
Chapter 8. Managing Quality
Chapter 9. Managing the Implementation Program
Chapter 10. Future Trends
Appendices (Business Plan Example, Term Sheet Outline, Transistor Scaling, Yield Models, Quality)
About the author
Rakesh Kumar (Poway, CA) is the Founding Partner and President of TCX Inc. He has been a champion of the fabless model at two self-funded start-ups, Cadence Design Services, Motorola, Unysis, and IBM. He is an Executive Committee Member and Treasurer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society and is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.
Summary
Tackles the challenges faced by integrated circuit manufacturing firms following or transitioning over to the fables business model (focusing on design and outsourcing the actual manufacturing). This resource details the potential pitfalls and solutions for the IC design model.
