Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: April 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=214 /] Find last week’s technical paper additions here. » read more

Power Sub-Mesh Construction To Mitigate IR Drop And Minimize Routing Overhead (Intel)


A new technical paper titled "Power Sub-Mesh Construction in Multiple Power Domain Design with IR Drop and Routability Optimization" was published by researchers at Intel Corporation and National Taiwan University. Abstract: "Multiple power domain design is prevalent for achieving aggressive power savings. In such design, power delivery to cross-domain cells poses a tough challenge at adv... » read more

Technical Paper Roundup: November 14


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=165 /] More Reading Technical Paper Library home » read more

Highly Stacked Nanowire FETs To Enhance Drive Current And Transistor Density


A technical paper titled “Fabrication and performance of highly stacked GeSi nanowire field effect transistors” was published by researchers at National Taiwan University. Abstract: "Horizontal gate-all-around field effect transistors (GAAFETs) are used to replace FinFETs due to their good electrostatics and short channel control. Highly stacked nanowire channels are widely believed to en... » read more

Chip Industry Talent Shortage Drives Academic Partnerships


Universities around the world are forming partnerships with semiconductor companies and governments to help fill open and future positions, to keep curricula current and relevant, and to update and expand skills for working engineers. Talent shortages repeatedly have been cited as the number one challenge for the chip industry. Behind those concerns are several key drivers, and many more dom... » read more

Technical Paper Roundup: Sept. 12


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=51 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

Scaling Down To 2nm: Using Microwaves For Efficient & Stable Doping


A new technical paper titled "Efficient and stable activation by microwave annealing of nanosheet silicon doped with phosphorus above its solubility limit" was just published by researchers at National Taiwan University, Cornell University, TSMC, University of Valladolid, DSG Technologies, National Central University and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. A modified microwave was used... » read more

Security Research: Technical Paper Round-Up


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at recent conferences, including the August 2022 USENIX Security Symposium and IEEE’s International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses (including on-chip mesh interconnect attacks), heterogeneous attacks on cache hierarchies, rowhammer attacks and mitig... » read more

Assessing & Simulating Semiconductor Side-Channel or Unintended Data Leakage Vulnerabilities


This research paper titled "Multiphysics Simulation of EM Side-Channels from Silicon Backside with ML-based Auto-POI Identification" from researchers at Ansys, National Taiwan University and Kobe University won the best paper award at IEEE's International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). The paper presents a new tool "to assess unintended data leakage vulnerabilities... » read more

Technical Paper Round-up: May 17


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=27 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a go... » read more

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