PDK工艺设计套件
A PDK, or process design kit, is the set of technology files, device models, layout rules, parameterized cells, and verification decks that a foundry provides to chip designers for a specific manufacturing process. It appears throughout design-environment documentation, EDA tool setup guides, and foundry onboarding materials as the interface between design tools and fabrication constraints, and it is normally versioned against a particular process node.
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Where this term appears
'PDK' appears in EDA tool documentation, design environment setup guides, foundry customer portals, process selection materials, and process migration guides. Translators encounter it when localizing installation notes, layer mapping tables, DRC/LVS run instructions, and release notes, where the abbreviation is usually kept and the expanded Chinese term is given at first mention.
Translation checks
A common error is translating 'kit' too literally as a physical toolkit or using inconsistent terms such as 'process library' and 'technology package.' That can confuse designers about whether a PDK is a software/design-data deliverable rather than hardware. Another error is dropping the distinction between PDK versions tied to specific process nodes.
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