Designing MEMS microphones from concept

Knowles Corporation discusses how they use L-Edit to quickly design MEMS microphones that employ complex polygonal and curved-structure geometry. Pete Loeppert, Vice President of research and development presents his team’s approach to MEMS design. He states, “High–end EDA tools are better suited to Manhattan-style geometry and keeping things ‘square,’ but everything we do in MEMS is circular. With L-Edit, I can go from concept to finished GDSII in about two weeks. There’s never been anything as easy to use for this as the Siemens Custom IC tools.”