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Current complexities involving the design and manufacturing of semiconductor manufacturing are parsed with the need to contract third-party foundry porting services, whose primary responsibility is to facilitate the transition of integrated circuits designed for one particular manufacturing process technology node to another manufacturing process technology node. That is why, as a young and rapidly developing area of engineering, VLSI design in USA, requires effective and low-risk foundry porting. This article aims at analysing the different aspects of the foundry porting service, with specific emphasis on the risks imposed by the service and the measures taken to overcome them.

VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is the backbone of most electronics systems that are in used today ranging from mobile phones to high-end computing systems. In line with technology nodes and file changing processes, designers are forced to migrate their initial designs to new foundries and process nodes. This process, known as foundry porting, is critical for several reasons:

Process Differences: Every one of these foundries has essentially different PDKs, design rules, and manufacturing particularities. Translating design to these differences is not easy and it takes a lot of time to run out the best design.