Speed Up Early Design Rule Exploration And Physical Verification


Ensuring that early-stage IC design physical verification actually enhances IC design and verification productivity means giving engineers the ability to focus on those errors that are both valid and critical in early-stage designs. The Calibre nmDRC Recon functionality provides selective DRC of early-stage designs that focuses on real, relevant errors, ignoring rule checks that generate meanin... » read more

Accelerate The Algorithm To Silicon Development With Stratus HLS


Growth in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital signal processing (DSP) applications, coupled with advances in semiconductor process technology, drives increasingly denser SoCs. These complex SoCs further challenge the design team’s ability to meet performance, power, and area (PPA) goals within tight time-to-market windows. We need automated and targeted solutions that efficien... » read more

Heterogeneous Assembly Datasheet


Medical and biotech devices often include optical, chemical, RF, and liquid elements. Some are combined with electronic devices to increase functionality or interaction with the environment. To produce these devices, multiple technologies are combined in a cost-effective way, ideally using a rapid process development cycle to minimize time to market. Combining technologies, as well as combining... » read more

Pathfinding By Process Window Modeling: Advanced DRAM Capacitor Patterning Process Window Evaluation Using Virtual Fabrication


In advanced DRAM, capacitors with closely packed patterning are designed to increase cell density. Thus, advanced patterning schemes, such as multiple litho-etch, SADP and SAQP processes may be needed. In this paper, we systematically evaluate a DRAM capacitor hole formation process that includes SADP and SAQP patterning, using virtual fabrication and statistical analysis in SEMulator3D. The pu... » read more

Nova METRION Use Cases


Several use cases that we will explore for the Nova METRION® system include contamination control, process excursion prevention, reactor matching, and uniformity control. The objectives of these use cases are to detect contaminants which can kill devices, improve barrier layer and source/drain function, maintain deposition uniformity that impacts downstream processes, and ensure wafer-to-wafer... » read more

Meeting Cost And Technology Requirements Using MLF/QFN


MicroLeadFrame (MLF)/ quad flat no-lead (QFN) packaging technology is the fastest growing IC packaging solution today. From a market segment perspective, MLF packaging solutions represent more than a 111B-unit market for 2022 across five markets: automotive, consumer, industrial, networking, and communications (Figure 1). The package solution requirements across these markets vary but, the fund... » read more

SEMI’s Year-End Total Semiconductor Equipment Forecast — OEM Perspective, 2022


Global sales of total semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are forecast to reach a new high of $108.5 billion in 2022, rising 5.9% from the previous industry record of $102.5 billion in 2021, SEMI announced today in its Year-End Total Semiconductor Equipment Forecast – OEM Perspectiveat SEMICON Japan 2022. The record high caps three consecutive years of re... » read more

Samsung PM9A3 All Flash Reference Platform


Software Defined Storage continues to gain momentum in the modern datacenter storage market. As datacenter storage in- frastructures and technologies evolve, the need for speed and flexibility in the storage system becomes evident. NVMe is at the forefront of these advancements. Weka is a software defined storage system that is designed to meet the needs of today’s I/O intensive workloads. It... » read more

Holistic Die-to-Die Interface Design Methodology For 2.5-D Multi-Chip-Module Systems


More than Moore technologies can be supported by system level diversification enabled by chiplet based integrated systems within multi-chip-modules (MCM) and silicon interposer based 2.5D systems. The division of large system-on-chip dies into smaller chiplets with different technology nodes specific to the chiplet application requirement enables the performance enhancement at system level whil... » read more

Physics-Based Radar Modeling: Driving Toward Increased Safety


Autonomous driving is revolutionizing the global automotive industry. With every new model, cars are smarter and more capable of independently responding to external signals like lane markings, road signs, other cars and pedestrians. However, formulating a correct response via artificial intelligence depends on the flawless performance of the car’s perception systems, including radar-ba... » read more

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