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34. what are the steps performed to achieve Lithography friendly Design Designing for Manufacturability requires validating the design full-filling lithography rules - Checking the layout confirming the design rules (spacing,trace-width,shorts).
- Check for the less-congested areas and increasing the spacing of the nets.
35. what does synthesis mean Synthesis is a step of mapping the RTL files (verilog format or vhdl format) to convert it to the technology specific cells..
36. what are the pre-requisties to perform synthesis 1. RTL files
2. Synopsys constraints file, Design constraints file, explaining the priorities of cost functions like area/timing/power
3. Technology specific library files.
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