Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Scheduling System in IC Design Industry

Abstract

With the global competition and short life cycle in semiconductor industry, the IC design companies try to keep their competitiveness. Besides the human resources and advanced technology, enhancing the speed of the development is an important method to enhance market share. IC designers usually use electronic design automation tool to shorten the development. However, the EDA tools and resources are expensive and limited. Hence, it becomes a critical problem to allocate the resources and schedule the jobs. This study aimed to develop an IC design job scheduling decision support system framework. The framework enhances the throughput and reduces the idle. This study implements the proposed framework in practice. The empirical study conducted in IC design company to validate the developed solution and model implementation.