Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Sophisticated Variation Modeling
As a newly-developed process is prepared for delivery into the production world, one of the last things that has to happen to effect a transition…
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Challenging PrimeTime. Really.
No one ever got fired for using PrimeTime to sign off a chip. Actually, I don’t know if that’s true, but from an EDA buyer’s…
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Concurrent Sign-off Analysis
I’m getting a sense that we’re back into the small-company-friendly phase of the EDA company cycle. A number of newcomers (which means they’ve been around…
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Self-Assembly Shapes
The concept of oil and water separating sounds like an easy way to describe what happens with directed self-assembly. But unfortunately, it’s not quite that…
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Pressing Vinyl (Or Something Similar)
You’d think a complete new technology for patterning silicon would merit a long, involved story. And yet it’s just not that complicated. (Easy for me…
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Directing DSA
DSA – Directed Self Assembly – is 2/3 natural and 1/3 artificial. The “self assembly” part (two of the three words, to make the scoring…
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Continued FinFET Roll
The Synopsys Users’ Group scheduled a panel session on FinFETs at their recent session. This is consistent with pretty much every EDA company providing FinFET…
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Diamond Windows
It’s funny that, as all things silicon shrink and we look forward to alternatives, we’re getting used to hearing about carbon as a regular material…