Design for Manufacturability: A Must

MEMS devices require a clear design-for-manufac turability strategy that establishes concurrent-design principles through a common CAD framework. Detailed process and material-property characterization early in the design phase can save enough time to lead to low-cost volume manufacturing of MEMS. Toward this end, a comprehensive, integrated suite of MEMS design tools that incorporates a top-down design methodology with reusable parametric libraries of MEMS components, standard MEMS package libraries and relevant system components can reduce time-to-market.

Design-for-manufac turability is an approach to product design that systematically includes considerations for manufacturability in the design process. It fundamentally includes organizational changes, systematic design principles and a common CAD methodology and framework for evaluating device designs.

For example, during the conceptual-design phase, it is critical to have many design concepts simultaneously to increase the likelihood of a successful design that meets target specifications. The key to multiple viable concepts is the ability to rapidly create, analyze and evaluate designs. For MEMS, this means making libraries of parameterized design elements available for engineers to use (and reuse) as building blocks.

Parameterized libraries of elements were devel

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