Patent ID: 7197723
Filing Date: 2007-03-27
Classification: G06F,Y02P

Abstract:
1. In a system including a plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities, each of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities having a respective manufacturing process requiring semiconductor specific design information in a corresponding diverse format, a method for supplying data to each of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities in an appropriate format comprising: establishing a database for each of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities, the database identifying the appropriate format for each of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities; receiving semiconductor specific design information; converting the received semiconductor specific design information in accordance with an appropriate format for one of selected ones of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities; and providing a respective tapeout to said one of the selected ones of the plurality of diverse semiconductor manufacturing facilities, each tapeout comprising the received semiconductor specific design information formatted in an appropriate format for said one semiconductor manufacturing facility receiving the tapeout.