Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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A new way to do metal
I noticed an interesting release courtesy of Leti, the French research consortium. It concerns a new way of depositing metal that looks so easy that…
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The Veil is Lifted on Methodics.Com
You may remember something of a kerfuffle about Methodics, which uses the methodics-da.com domain, finding that a page at methodics.com that said that Methodics was…
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The Clouds Converge
We’ve been watching the cloud computing space, and Synopsys has been playing a visible role in exploring the public cloud for compute resource elasticity during…
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Photonics at Leti
CEA-Leti, a French research consortium, reviewed their technology projects during Semicon West last week. I got a chance to speak with Leti’s Hughes Metras afterwards…
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A New Spin on Logic
Way back in 2008, we took a look at MRAM technology. As a brief review, you may recall that Crocus in particular takes advantage of…
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The Old Switcheroo
Way back in 2004, during the Vice Presidential debate, Dick Cheney urged listeners to go to “factcheck.com” to confirm that the campaign spin-checking organization would…
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Sorting Through the Rubble
Roughly a year ago we talked about Vennsa’s OnPoint tool for identifying what went wrong during verification when something goes wrong. I got an update…
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Custom Chip Planning
Digital designers have had semi-automated design flows for a long time; custom and analog designers, not so much. Pulsic recently announced that they’re taking some…
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Chip Design Tweaker
Last-minute chip design changes are always unfortunate, whether right before cutting masks or, worse yet, after you get silicon back. Some major tool environments provide…
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Another Way to Test Your 3D ICs
A couple months back we looked at Mentor’s approach to testing 3D ICs. Cadence and Imec have recently announced an automated solution for testing 3D…