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Category: Semiconductor

Semiconductor/IC

  • Programmable SoCs?

    The scene: a top-secret conference room in the West of England. Present: a group of high-powered technical guys. Topic: The next stage in project X…

  • Germanium-Tin Channel

    Imec recently issued a press release that, early on, mentioned a “junctionless transistor.” Now… as far as I can remember back, transistors always had junctions.…

  • SPICE-ing It Up

    SPICE is pretty fundamental to circuit design. That’s obvious for cell and custom designers; for you digital folks, you get exempted only because a cell…

  • Triple Patterning Explosion

    The type of patterning to be used at a given technology node is determined layer-by-layer. At 10 nm, SADP is planned for metals, but contacts…

  • Comparing Oscillator Temp Compensation

    MEMS oscillators are making a serious challenge to quartz these days. We looked at Sand 9’s approach recently, but as I thumbed back through other…

  • Palladium Hybrid

    Cadence has announced its latest upgrade to their Palladium emulator family. It has many of the usual improvements you might expect – faster execution, higher…

  • Intel to Close Fab, Lay Off 700

    Intel is closing its Hudson, Mass. fab and will lay off all 700 employees, according to the Boston Globe. Intel first acquired the Hudson fab…

  • New Synopsys DFT Offerings

    It’s ITC time, and this is when many of the EDA and test folks roll out their new stuff. True to this pattern, Synopsys has…

  • Two Ways to Tune an Antenna

    We’ve looked at a couple of companies focusing on improving the performance of cell phone antennas in real time as conditions change. WiSpry (MEMS) and…

  • A Different Kind of Current

    We’ve seen a number of different ways in which magnetic interactions with electron current can be put to use thanks to the concept of spin.…