Design Methodology

The increasing costs of designing into nanometer technologies means that first-time silicon success has become essential to meeting cost and time to market targets. UMC's design methodology is developed to help customers reach successful silicon in the shortest time possible by utilizing proven reference design flows, the latest design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions, and EDA tools correlated to UMC silicon from leading EDA vendors. The result is a reliable path to silicon that minimizes risk.