The Application Research Of Integrated Circuit Design Project Management

Integrate Circuit (IC) industry as one of foundations of the modern industry and information society, restricts other industries' innovations and developments in a large degree. The science and technology level and the industries' scales of IC has become one of the most important symbols of national synthesis strength. With the development of IC technologies in China, it's scale is getting so large that the IC design should be completed by a team. To achieve better quality and goal, project management has been introduced into design processes in IC design enterprises. Under this kind of circumstance, how to practice effective project management turns to be an emergent topic for study and research. This thesis has a systematic study and analysis on new production plan, plans of projects management, control management and risk management, in order to produce some references to similar IC project management in IC design enterprises.The thesis presents project management methods which are suitable to IC design project by the application and research of actual case from application consideration, combining with the characteristic of IC design industry's development, using methods and ideas of project management. Firstly, the thesis introduces the history of IC industry development, analyzes the features of IC design industry's trend. After concluding the main matter and the management procedure of the IC design projects, the thesis applies and studies the management procedure of IC design project during the practical project. The project applies the methods of new product plan and development the project schedule, analyzes the processes and methods of all IC design project controls such as schedule control, cost control, cooperation control and so on. In the closing of the project concludes the successes factors, such as the support of manager, adequate preparation, implement based on the schedule of the project, the mobilization of the design engineers, parallel design and technique repeatedly use, close communication and so on. Finally, the thesis assesses the risks of the processes of the IC design project; they are market risk, competitive risk, management risk, technique risk, human resource risk and resource risk. The thesis quantitatively analyzes the risks using AHP (the Analytical Hierarchy Process), the results shows that the most important risk was resource risk, the more important risks were technique risk, market risk, human resource risk and competitive risk, and the management risks is less important. Based on the results the thesis makes the risks response. For example the resource risk response is the project manager should contact with the boss and make sure the fund prepared when the project processes.