Efficient Gated Clock Design Approach for LFSR


A technical paper titled "A Novel Clock Gating Approach for the Design of Low-Power Linear Feedback Shift Registers" was published by researchers at Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy. Abstract "This paper presents an efficient solution to reduce the power consumption of the popular linear feedback shift register by exploiting the gated clock approach. The power reduction with respec... » read more

Mask Maker Worries Grow


Leading-edge photomask makers face a multitude of challenges as they migrate from the 14nm node and beyond. Mask making is becoming more challenging and expensive at each node on at least two fronts. On one front, mask makers must continue to invest in the development of traditional optical masks at advanced nodes. On another front, several photomask vendors are preparing for the possible ra... » read more