Lithography Cost Reduction for Rad Hard Integrated Circuits

This program will combine Silicon Technologies analog automation technology ADONIS with EBDW technology.This combination will reduce design times and costs for Analog Trusted circuits and will facilitate reuse of obsolete, radiation-hardened, precision analog components. Originally funded by the DARPA GRATES program, ADONIS demonstrated that with analog specific modifications, ADONIS Straight Line technology that it was possible to extend the 1D approach to design analog circuits.EBDW has made significant advances in producing small geometry digital integrated circuits but little attention has been paid to using these techniques with analog circuits. Analog design is critical in the design of complex ICs. EBDW gridded design creates new floating elements, including inductors and antennas, which are not created by the designer, but are an artifact of the gridded design rules. ADONIS will give the designer the ability to control and model these elements during the design process.To shorten design times, companies REUSE design. Digital reuse is very efficient, but Analog reuse is inefficient requiring 80-90% of the original designs effort. ADONIS and EBDW will solve this problem. With EBDW and ADONIS, DoD programs will ensure that chips designed today will be portable to new technologies for the next 50 years.