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What MOSIS does after successfully receiving a submission for fabrication.
Submit A Design
Manufacturability Review, Messages, and Status States
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You've successfully send a New Project request.
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Your Fabricate request was received.
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The FTP session was successful.
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Project Status: Being Checked
As soon as MOSIS successfully receives your layout, our software
starts analyzing it to insure we understand your design well enough to
fabricate it and that there is nothing present that would interfer in
the fabrication of other designs on the run.
MOSIS calls this a
Manufacturability Review.
No DRC (Design Rule Check) is performed
on your design at this stage.
In addition to evaluating your layout, MOSIS will also check your
account for the presence of any unresolved administrative issues that
could prevent your design from being fabricated.
Upon completion of the manufacturability review, MOSIS will reporting
its findings, sending copies to the e-mail (net_address field)
addresses you specified in the request form.
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Successful Manufacturability Review Message
Queued for Fabrication
Manufacturability review did not find any problems affecting
manufacturability, but you should read all the warnings carefully
because they may be important. A project will stay in this state
until it is selected for fabrication on the next available appropriate
run or cancelled.
Foundry Checks In Progress
Manufacturability review did not find any problems affecting
manufacturability, but your project is destined for a foundry that
imposes further checks (all the IBM and austriamicrosystems
technologies, and the ON Semi I2T100, I2T30, I3T80,I3T50, and I3T25
processes). These additional tests may result in the discovery of
design issues that will need to be addressed prior to
fabrication. Also, you should read all the warnings carefully because
they may be important. A project will stay in this state until it is
selected for fabrication on the next available appropriate run.
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Unsuccessful Manufacturability Review Message
Awaiting Quote or Funding
Do not ignore this message. Although your design passed the
manufacturability review, it is not in the queue, cannot be selected
for fabrication because of unresolved pricing or payment issues, and
will remain in this state until you
contact MOSIS to resolve it.
Contact MOSIS
Your design has encountered a problem and will not be fabricated until
you contact MOSIS to correct the
problem.
Project Failed
The manufacturability review of the design has determined this project
is ineligible for fabrication in its current state. The project
error(s) give the reason(s).
If the error(s) turn out to be in the parameter values you declared
(e.g., you specified the wrong technology) and not in the layout file
itself , you can fix the error(s) by sending an
Update
request correcting those parameters. You need not resubmit the
layout. A new Manufacturability Review will be performed with the
modified parameters and the existing layout file.
Submission problems fall into one of two categories:
Errors and Warnings.
Errors by their very nature cause a design submission
to fail and must be addressed.
Warnings, by themselves, do not cause a manufacturability
review failure, but they may represent a real problem that you need to
address. For more information, see
Project Warnings and Messages
FAQ and
Manufacturability Review
Warnings.
If your submission failed, review and address the Errors.
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Some of the more common causes of designs failing manufacturability
review are listed in the
Submitting Designs
to MOSIS FAQ.
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Status State Messages
After the run closes, the ability to revise layout in the queue is at
the discretion of MOSIS. Contact MOSIS customer support at
310-448-9400 for advice.
Locked (Fabrication Candidate)
The project is tentatively selected for inclusion on a MOSIS run that
is in the early stages of being assembled. Modified layout cannot be
sent when the design is in this state, nor can the project be
cancelled.
In Fabrication
The project is part of a run that has entered the fabrication
cycle. Data has been sent to the mask shop and wafer fabrication has
started. In addition to its design number, the project is now assigned
a "Fabriction ID," which consists of the MOSIS run identifier and the
project's specific die id.
Shipped
The project has completed fabrication and packaging cycle, and parts
have been shipped to the customer. This is the end state, indicating
the process is complete.
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