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Current EDA market has plenty of DFM (Design for Manufacturing) solutions on via doubling for VLSI design which enhances single-level metal (hierarchy) interconnections. A new conceptual approach, Multi-Level Metal and Via (MLMV) is proposed to extend the capability to insert metals and vias across multiple hierarchies to lower effective resistance. The objective is to improve signal integrity by...