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Systems & Design – April 2025


Top Stories AI Drives Re-Engineering Of Nearly Everything In Chips Complexity, uncertainty, and lots of moving pieces will challenge the semiconductor industry for years to come. New Ways To Improve EDA Productivity A multi-faceted approach is required to deal with growing complexity and a shortage of engineers. Analog Creates Ripples in Digital Verification While analog and digital v... » read more

Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials – April 2025


Special Report Backside Power Delivery Nears Production Breakthrough approach delivers better scaling and power efficiency, but at the cost of new processes like wafer thinning, bonding, and advanced debug. Big Changes Ahead For Interposers And Substrates New materials and processes will help with power distribution and thermal dissipation in advanced packages. Top Stories Can Chiplets ... » read more

Low Power-High Performance – April 2025


Top Stories Chiplet Tradeoffs And Limitations Multi-die assemblies offer more flexibility, but figuring out the right amount of customization can have a big impact on power, performance, and cost. Implementing AI Activation Functions Why flexibility, area, and performance are traded off in AI inferencing designs. 3D-IC Ecosystem Starts To Take Form Before any advancement can go mainst... » read more

Test, Measurement & Analytics – April 2025


Special Report Big Changes Ahead For Interposers And Substrates New materials and processes will help with power distribution and thermal dissipation in advanced packages. Top Stories Why Thin Film Measurements Matter Controlling thin films to precise specifications is essential for ensuring high yield in high-performance devices. Nearly Invisible: Defect Detection Below 5nm Increasing... » read more

Automotive, Security & Pervasive Computing – April 2025


Special Report Auto Sector Leads The Way In IC Security Other markets include a hodgepodge of often ineffective approaches, but changes are coming as the value of connected assets increases. Top Stories Stakes Are High For Aerospace, Defense IC Designs Mission-critical applications involve higher levels of abstraction than automotive and often need to meet safety-critical requirements, as ... » read more

Systems & Design – March 2025


Special Report First-Time Silicon Success Plummets Number of designs that are late increases. Rapidly rising complexity is the leading cause, but tools, training, and workflows need to improve. Top Stories Challenges In Managing Chiplet Resources The chip industry is exploring multiple avenues for simplifying multi-die integration, but difficulties remain for optimizing designs. Digital... » read more

Manufacturing, Packaging & Materials – March 2025


Special Report The Rise Of Thin Wafer Processing From thinning and trimming to bonding and debonding, 3D package quality is built on precise and extremely thin wafer processes. Top Stories What Exactly Are Chiplets And Heterogeneous Integration? New technologies drive new terminology, but the early days for those new approaches can be very confusing. Many Options For EUV Photoresists, N... » read more

Low Power-High Performance – March 2025


Special Report New Data Center Protocols Tackle AI UALink scales up, while Ultra Ethernet scales out. Top Stories 3D-IC For The Masses Advanced assemblies have enabled an unprecedented rate of advancement in the data center, especially for neural processing, but can it expand beyond that? Chiplets Add New Power Issues Well-understood challenges become much more complicated when SoCs ar... » read more

Test, Measurement & Analytics – March 2025


Top Stories Automation And AI Improve Failure Analysis Better tools, automation, and analytics improve FA, but determining the cause of failure is still difficult. Cutting IC Manufacturing Costs By Combining Data Mixing financial data with manufacturing analytics can boost efficiency, but there are still pockets of resistance. Failure To Launch Fundamental changes are needed in failur... » read more

Automotive, Security & Pervasive Computing – March 2025


Special Report Automakers Grapple With Fundamental Tech Changes It may not be obvious, but big shifts are underway across the industry that will make it more competitive, strategic, and customer-focused. Top Stories Software-Defined Radar Is First Leap On SDV Path Auto industry moves toward new architectures one feature at a time. Wearable Connectivity, AI Enable New Use Cases New type... » read more

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