What’s At Stake In System Design?
By Cadence - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

What You Will Gain From This eBook: Power and Signal Integrity Insights into harmonic balancing and crosstalk analysis Learning about loop gain and transmission rates Examining the necessity of power-aware systems Electromagnetic Analysis Knowledge about the state of electromagnetics in wireless networks Insight into RADAR and LiDAR EM profiles Tips for bending, meshin... » read more

How Low Can You Go? Pushing The Limits Of Transistors
By Synopsys - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Deep low voltage enablement of embedded memories and logic libraries to achieve extreme low power: Rising demand for cutting-edge mobile, IoT, and wearable devices, along with high compute demands for AI and 5G/6G communications, has driven the need for lower power systems-on-chip (SoCs). This is not only a concern for a device’s power consumption when active (dynamic power), but also when... » read more

17 Equations That Changed The World
By Ansys - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Mathematics has been a constant part of our lives forever and is used in many ways in our everyday lives. Created by Ian Stewart, listed on Dr. Paul Coxon’s Twitter account, and discussed on mathematics blogger Larry Philip’s site is a list of the “17 Equations that Changed the World,” many of which have been mentioned on The Big Bang TheoryTV series. However, the list is incomplete.... » read more

Learn The Architecture — Memory System Resource Partitioning And Monitoring (MPAM) Overview
By Arm - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

This guide introduces the Memory System Resource Partitioning and Monitoring (MPAM), an optional addition to the Arm architecture to support memory system partitioning. MPAM is documented in the Memory System Resource Partitioning and Monitoring (MPAM), for A-profile architecture Arm Architecture Reference Manual Supplement. Click here to read more. » read more

Startup Funding: February 2023
By Jesse Allen - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

The cost of borrowing is going up, but investors continued to pour money into the chip industry in February. Collectively, 132 companies raised more than $4.5 billion last month. One of the big beneficiaries was quantum computing, with nine companies drawing a total of more than $500 million. The bulk of that went to a quantum software and services company spun out of Alphabet, but plenty wa... » read more

Metrology Strategies For 2nm Processes
By Laura Peters - 07 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 3

Metrology and wafer inspection processes are changing to keep up with evolving and new device applications. While fab floors still have plenty of OCD tools, ellipsometers, and CD-SEMs, new systems are taking on the increasingly 3D nature of structures and the new materials they incorporate. For instance, processes like hybrid bonding, 3D NAND flash devices, and nanosheet FETs are pushing the bo... » read more

Test Challenges Mount As Demands For Reliability Increase
By Anne Meixner - 07 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

An emphasis of improving semiconductor quality is beginning to spread well beyond just data centers and automotive applications, where ICs play a role in mission- and safety-critical applications. But this focus on improved reliability is ratcheting up pressure throughout the test community, from lab to fab and into the field, in products where transistor density continues to grow — and wh... » read more

Addressing Total Overlay Drift In Advanced IC Substrate (AICS) Packaging
By Keith Best - 07 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

For years, many in the semiconductor industry have focused on the march toward advanced nodes. As these nodes have decreased in size, the size of input/output (I/O) bumps on the chip has grown smaller. As these bumps shrink, their ability to mate directly to printed circuit boards (PCB) diminishes, which, in turn, leads to the need for an intermediary substrate. Enter the advanced IC substrate ... » read more

Compiler Optimization Made Easy
By Nozar Nozarian - 07 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

In a previous blog post, we discussed the benefits of using automation to maximize the performance of a system. One use case I mentioned was compiler flag mining, and the fact that performance is available beyond the standard optimization flags provided by most compilers. Getting to this untapped performance is a difficult problem to solve, but fortunately there is an easy way. A universe of o... » read more

Advanced Digital Process Nodes Drive Semiconductor Test Innovations
By Regan Mills - 07 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Global internet traffic is growing exponentially, with no sign of slowing, and this demand is driving the evolution of the semiconductor industry. The appetite for more and more data requires sensors for capturing the data, networks for moving the data, storage, and processing power to analyze the data. As the demand for data grows, the underlying technologies must advance to not only meet toda... » read more

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