Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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An Easier-To-Build Unreleased Oscillator
MEMS technology is providing new ways to generate reliable frequencies that conventionally require bulky LC tanks and crystals. Granted, it’s early days (as other monolithic…
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Molly to the Rescue
Graphene has excited technologists for years now, with its promise of high mobility, strength, and flexibility. Except for one big problem: no bandgap. So you…
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Nanowire Advancements
Nanowires are a perennial IEDM topic, and this year was no exception. Three papers in particular were identified as standing out. One of them relates…
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A Big Endurance Boost
Flash memories degrade over time as the oxide gets damaged and loses its ability to hold charge. It’s apparently well known that this damage can…
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Germanium at IEDM
There’s lots of interest in using germanium in pFETs to improve the symmetry between n- and p-channel devices in a CMOS inverter. But integrating it…
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What Makes LEDs Different?
Earlier this month, KLA-Tencor released their ICOS WI-2280 inspection tool for LEDs. Reading through all the things it does and the improvements in provides –…
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It must have been a dead-heat
Two e-mails plopped in to the in-tray, both with the same time stamp The first was headlined ARM and Cadence Tape Out First 14nm FinFET…
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MEMS: Unloved?
Karen has been feeling unloved. That would be Karen Lightman, managing director of the MEMS Industry Group. After several years of MEMS taking a share…
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20-nm Test Enhancements
ITC is usually the time when the EDA companies announce their coolest test-related advances. While Mentor announced their IJTAG support, Synopsys focused its agenda largely…