Abstract
IC design house is the source of semiconductor manufacturing industry. IC design house is booming recently and it makes a special industry at Taiwan. The basic functions of product development and integrated circuit design at IC design house are well known to people. However, manufacturing management for IC design house is seldom studied in literature. Particularly, IC design house is a virtual manufacturer who do not actually provide manufacturing facility, such as foundry, assembly, and testing house. All of its production function rely on outsoucing manufacturer. As a result, a new production and capacity planning are evolved and facing a new challenge. In this paper, the background and production planning function of IC design house at Taiwan are first introduced. Subsequently, two capacity models, P and M models based on the concept of maximum production and fulfilling marketing requirement, are proposed. An example is presented to illustrate and support the computational procedure of the two models. Finally, we also discuss certain properties of the two models for applications.