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Category: Semiconductor

Semiconductor/IC

  • Internet of Things- This Season’s Trend

    Later this week I will be reporting on the embedded world conference, where the Internet of Things was the major topic. Just before embedded world…

  • DSA Update

    The focus of the directed self-assembly (DSA) discussion at SPIE Advanced Litho has changed. In past years, it has felt more like the efforts were…

  • Speed Sensors in Chips

    One of the immense challenges of aggressive-node design is coping with all of the variations both in the the silicon, given processing variability, and in…

  • Synopsys Does… Software?

    Synopsys has gone shopping again, and this time they went to a completely different mall. They came back with Coverity. Just another acquisition? Nope… This…

  • Smoother IP to SoC Prototyping

    Synopsys recently announced their HAPS DX (Developer eXpress) product, and the story surrounding that release spoke to many of the things that Synopsys sees as…

  • Tree Frogs Help Graphene Grow

    Growing high-quality graphene for use on wafers is hard. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the favored approach, but no one has perfected the ability to…

  • Ten years and rolling

    Ten years ago today the Mars Rover Opportunity bounced its way on to the surface of Mars, at the start of a three month mission.…

  • IntrinsicID and InsideSecure Come to DropBox

    We’ve taken an occasional look at physically-unclonable functions (PUFs), and, in particular, IntrinsicID’s implementation of them, as they seem to have gone further in productizing…

  • MEMS First Silicon Success

    Some time back, AMFitzgerald and Silex, a MEMS consultancy and foundry, respectively, announced their “RocketMEMS” program in order to take steps to accelerate the notoriously…

  • Going Expensive to Reduce Interposer Cost

    Imec has been  working 2,5D IC issues with a particular focus on optimizing costs and, in particular, test yields. Yields can take what might have…