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A group of steps that are followed to accomplish something

What is a Process?

100

The process of finding and fixing problems, especially with computers or electronics.

What is Debugging?

100

The process of making sure that the information in a chip is delivered around the chip at the right time.

What is Clock-tree Synthesis?

200

A thin thread of metal that can conduct electricity

What is a Wire?

200

A factory where semiconductors are designed and built; short for fabrication.

What is a Fab?

200

A kind of file that contains the information about chip design that a fab uses to manufacture the chip.

What is GDS II?

300

The process of making something.

What is Manufacturing?

300

A list of all of the electronic parts of a chip and how they are connected.

What is Netlist?

300

The stage of semiconductor chip design in which engineers build detailed models of the chip.

What is RTL Design?

400

To make or produce something that is not real but looks or feels real.

What is Simulate?

400

The process of deciding which components of a chip needs to be located next to each other.

What is Floorplanning?

400

The stage of semiconductor chip design in which engineers get information about the chip they will build.

What is System Level Architecture?

500

One part that, together with other parts, make something bigger, especially a machine.

What is a Component?

500

Computer programming languages that are used to make models of electronic systems.

What is Verilog / VHDL?

500

Computer software that tells whether the chip design plan follows the rules of the fab where the chip will be manufactured.

What is Design Rule Checkers?