March 2011 - Page 2 of 5 - Semiconductor Engineering

The Future Of EDA…And DAC
By Ed Sperling - 31 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

System-Level Design digs into the future of the design automation tools industry and the Design Automation Conference with Cadence's Neil Hand, Atrenta's Mike Gianfagna and Springsoft's Johnson Teng.   [youtube vid=IYA2o0tzOZs] » read more

Experts At The Table: Yield Issues
By Ed Sperling - 27 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down to discuss yield with Amiad Conley, technology marketing manager for yield and process control at Applied Materials; Cyrus Tabery, senior member of the GlobalFoundries technical staff for lithography development and DFM; Brady Benware, engineering manager for diagnosis and yield at Mentor Graphics, and Ankush Oberai, general man... » read more

Engineering’s Growing Blacklist
By Ed Sperling - 25 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

The number of system-level design flaws is rising, and they’re not just little mistakes. These are high-profile errors that are making headlines all over the globe. While it’s debatable whether Toyota’s problem was a hardware or software design glitch, the simple fact is there was a design flaw somewhere. That’s true for the BP Gulf of Mexico leak, regardless of who’s responsible f... » read more

Changes Ahead In Low-Power Design
By Ed Sperling - 25 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

One of the interesting things about low-power designs in ICs is just how effectively power-saving techniques are being designed into chips these days. At most of the larger chipmakers, and even at an increasing number of midsize fabless companies, the concepts for implementing low-power techniques are well understood, well tested and thoroughly familiar. Two years ago, when the mainstream of... » read more

Experts At The Table: Billion-Gate Design Challenges
By Ed Sperling - 25 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss billion-gate design challenges with Charles Janac, CEO of Arteris; Jack Browne, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonics; Kalar Rajendiran, senior director of marketing at eSilicon; Mark Throndson, director of product marketing at MIPS; and Mark Baker, senior director of business development at Magma. What follows are excer... » read more

Laser pulses illuminate downturn and recovery
By Katherine Derbyshire - 25 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

[caption id="attachment_7313" align="alignnone" width="728"] Laser pulses per month for Gigaphoton's KrF and ArF lasers[/caption] I thought this image was a nice illustration of exactly what happened in the most recent industry downturn. The graphic shows the number of pulses per laser, per month, for Gigaphoton's installed base of ArF and KrF lasers. A stepper processing 1,000 wafers per mo... » read more

Double Patterning Requires a Double Take
By David Abercrombie - 24 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By David Abercrombie As the unstoppable progression of Moore’s law has driven the semiconductor technology roadmap farther and farther below 1 µm, a steady stream of engineering marvels has been required to produce leading edge chips. For most of that roadmap, the enabling engineering solutions were on the processing side. For instance, the development of i-line, then KrF and ArF light so... » read more

A Change in Capex for 2011?
By Adrienne Downey - 22 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Adrienne Downey The disaster unfolding in Japan due to the Tohoku earthquake has raised much uncertainty in the semiconductor industry.  It would be easy for us to look at the worst possible scenario, but is this the most likely one?   Semico recently released a semiconductor capital expenditure forecast of 15% growth for this year, which is on top of the 91% increase seen in 2010.  In ... » read more

HAMRing Imprint or Not
By Michael Watts - 19 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Mike Watts There were many papers at SPIE Advanced Lithography on Bit Patterned Media (BPM), potentially the way that 1 Tera bit per square inch (1 Tb/in²) hard disk drives will be made in the near future. I think BPM will be the next volume manufacturing application for imprint. Today, roll to roll optical products and wafer level lenses for cell phone cameras are the volume application... » read more

The Great Unknowns
By Ed Sperling - 18 Mar, 2011 - Comments: 0

Across the semiconductor industry—as well as many other end-product industries—there have been some well-documented and sober assessments of what impact the damage in Japan will have on business. In the EDA business, these kinds of numbers will be much harder to determine. Japan is a big consumer of EDA tools for the leading-edge process nodes, but with disruptions in power it will be d... » read more

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