HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION
HISTORY OF THE PROFESSION During the past two decades, the electronics industry has grown very fast both in size and in complexity. Designers began talking about chip design only 25 years ago. At the beginning, the idea was to design chips to reduce the computer size. Instead of room-sized computers, we have now ended up with PCs running at a speed that back then was considered “impossible to imagine.” The application of IC technology has exploded into many parts of our lives. IC layout design was originally hand-drafted on special paper called Mylar. This was a long and laborious task. The market demands and advances in technology brought about an immediate need to develop software and hardware solutions to improve the time-to-market of the chip designs and especially to automate the entire process. Accuracy of the final masks was also a driving force in the computerization of layout design. The first platforms were custom built to ensure that graphics applications ran quickly and...
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