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Chapter 11 Chip Assembly HE PROCESS of wiring up pre-designed modules to make a complete chip core, or taking a finished core and routing it to the chip pads T is known as chip assembly. Cadence has yet another tool that is designed specifically for this set of tasks known as the Cadence Chip As- sembly Router (ccar) which is part of the IC Craftsman (ICC) tool set. This tool will route between large pre-designed blocks which are not placed on a regular grid. This makes it fundamentally different than SOC En- counter which wants to place small cells on a fixed