tag: process variation

Modeling Semiconductor Process Variation
By Coventor - 19 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

3D semiconductors, 3D NAND Flash, FinFETS and other advanced devices are bringing tremendous opportunities to the semiconductor industry. Unfortunately, these devices are also bringing new design, process and production problems. Process variability has been a major contributor to production delays as feature sizes have decreased and process complexity has increased. Virtual fabrication is a co... » read more

Functional Safety Methodologies For Automotive Applications
By Cadence - 11 Apr, 2018 - Comments: 0

Safety-critical automotive applications have stringent demands for functional safety and reliability. Traditionally, functional safety requirements have been managed by car manufacturers and system providers. However, with the increasing complexity of electronics involved, the responsibility of addressing functional safety is now propagating through the supply chain to semiconductor companies a... » read more

The Next 5 Years Of Chip Technology
By Ed Sperling - 14 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of scaling, the impact of variation, and the introduction of new materials and technologies, with Rick Gottscho, CTO of Lam Research; Mark Dougherty, vice president of advanced module engineering at GlobalFoundries; David Shortt, technical fellow at KLA-Tencor; Gary Zhang, vice president of computational litho products at ASML; and Shay... » read more

Tech Talk: On-Chip Variation
By Ed Sperling - 01 Mar, 2018 - Comments: 0

Raymond Nijssen, vice president of systems engineering at Achronix, discusses on-chip and process variation at 7nm and 5nm, the role of embedded FPGAs, and how to reduce margin and pessimistic designs. https://youtu.be/LQnw_3H9soQ » read more

Tech Talk: 5/3nm Parasitics
By Ed Sperling - 22 Feb, 2018 - Comments: 0

Ralph Iverson, principal R&D engineer at Synopsys, talks about parasitic extraction at 5/3nm and what to expect with new materials and gate structures such as gate-all-around FETs and vertical nanowire FETs. https://youtu.be/24C6byQBkuI » read more

7/5nm Timing Closure Intensifies
By Ann Mutschler - 25 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 1

Timing closure issues are increasing in magnitude at 7/5nm, and ones that were often considered minor in the past no longer can be ignored. Timing closure is an essential part of any chip design. The process ensures that all combinatorial paths through a design meet the necessary timing so that it can run reliably at a specified clock rate. Timing closure hasn't changed significantly over th... » read more

Tech Talk: 7nm Process Variation
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 0

Ankur Gupta, director of field applications at ANSYS, discusses process variation and the problems it can cause at 10/7nm and beyond. https://youtu.be/WHNjFr1Da6s » read more

The Next 5 Years Of Chip Technology
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jan, 2018 - Comments: 1

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the future of scaling, the impact of variation, and the introduction of new materials and technologies, with Rick Gottscho, CTO of [getentity id="22820" comment="Lam Research"]; Mark Dougherty, vice president of advanced module engineering at [getentity id="22819" comment="GlobalFoundries"]; David Shortt, technical fellow at [getentity id="22876" co... » read more

The Implementation Of Embedded PVT Monitoring Subsystems In Today’s Cutting Edge Technologies
By Moortec - 13 Dec, 2017 - Comments: 0

This new whitepaper from Moortec takes a comprehensive look at the Implementation of Embedded PVT Monitoring Subsystems in Today’s Cutting Edge Technologies and how this can benefit today’s advanced node semiconductor design engineers by improving the performance and reliability of SoC designs. With advances in CMOS technology, and the scaling of transistor channel lengths to nanometer (nm)... » read more

Variation Spreads At 10/7nm
By Ed Sperling - 16 Nov, 2017 - Comments: 6

Variation between different manufacturing equipment is becoming increasingly troublesome as chipmakers push to 10/7nm and beyond. Process variation is a well-known phenomenon at advanced nodes. But some of that is actually due to variations in equipment—sometimes the exact same model from the same vendor. Normally this would fall well below the radar of the semiconductor industry. But as t... » read more

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