Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Validating Serial Protocols
When I was approached to talk about a new product from Arasan, I ran afoul of my favorite source of confusion from the Bureau of…
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To be, or not to be – an FPGA?
A few years ago, we shined light on the fact that FPGAs were stealthily appearing in places where they were not announced. Namely, both Altera…
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And Then There Were Three
Back before the turn of the century, a brash new company called Magma came onto the scene. This was a time when chip design involved…
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BoardView Becomes SystemNav
Almost two years ago we looked at Magma’s newly-announced BoardView. The idea was to simplify the border crossing between chip and board when tracing signals…
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Describing User-Defined Faults
In today’s article on cell-aware fault modeling, we described how specific layout-dependent faults can be accounted for in the test suite, increasing the test coverage…
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A Bit of Memory With Your Logic?
The recent ICCAD show had a session dedicated to MRAM and memristors. Spintec had a presentation on MRAM that went beyond the normal discussion of…
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What Will the Next Logic Switch Look Like?
The recent edition of ICCAD provided an interesting look at what some of the contenders will be for logic switches once our standard configurations are…
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Another Transistor Goes Vertical
While the recent MEMS Executive Congress focused on electro-mechanical applications, occasionally MEMS processing techniques were highlighted for strictly electrical purposes, with no mechanical component. In…
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A Different TSV
Through-silicon vias (TSVs) are a key technology for stacking chips in so-called 3D (or 2.5D) configurations. And there’s lots of talk about how to use…
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Getting a Jump on Power Integrity
Apache announced their RTL Power Model (RPM) recently. The idea is that it lets designers understand their power and power integrity issues earlier in the…