Abstract
As the rapid development of technology of semiconductor manufacturing, the IC designs have become increasingly complicated so that IC design processes have relied on heavy computer analysis that requires capital investment for computing resources. However, the computer resource is expensive and limited, and therefore it became a critical problem to well allocate the computer resource. This study aimed to develop a dynamic policy to integrate and arrange the computer resources. Several indicators were defined to quantify the vague workload and service rate, and hence the user can get a good understanding on the situation of system and resource easily. The best one and its parameter setting would also derived from a series of simulation study. Furthermore, five potential assignment policies were compared to validate the proposed approach. The empirical study conducted in IC design service corporation has validated the developed solution.