Invited: Physical Design Challenges for Design Technology Co-optimization
Taewhan Kim · 2025
Design technology co-optimization (DTCO) is the process of optimizing design and process technology together to enhance performance, power efficiency, chip utilization, and manufacturing cost/yield. Through DTCO, we are able to evaluate technologies, design rules, and cell architectures using block-level PPA (performance, power, area) analysis, which greatly helps semiconductor fabs reduce cost and shorten time-to-market in advanced process development with substantial architectural innovation.