July 9, 2015
IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and SUNY deserve kudos for manufacturing the first 7nm chip but the NREs involved still look frightening.
July 8, 2015
The leading EDA analyst passed away late last week after a short illness. Graham Bell offers this remembrance.
June 30, 2015
Companies such as Broadcom are experiencing threefold test-pattern reductions through the use of automatically inserted gates that allow parallel cones to share the same ATPG patterns that would not be possible using conventional test generation schemes.
June 29, 2015
The latest update to the CustomSim FastSpice tool from Synopsys provides more consistent speedups from multicore workstations and adds support for BCD processes and real-number modeling.
June 26, 2015
Research by Professor John Rogers' group at the University of Illinois is leading to biodegradable electronics, for both defense and medical applications.
June 25, 2015
Foundry claims isolation and device integration advantages for 180nm SOI process, help to absorb extra costs of SOI wafers
June 24, 2015
Ten cores in three clusters help match smartphone power/performance to app load and usage at MediaTek, thanks to Synopsys design exploration tools
June 23, 2015
The latest release of the SonicsGN NoC infrastructure provides speedups for multichannel memories.
June 19, 2015
Following Mentor's acquisition of Tanner EDA, management expect the integration will help with a drive into IoT applications and systems that need to go beyond standard IC lithography.
June 18, 2015
Is the industry ready to go beyond 10nm when it comes to lithography? Lithography researcher Professor David Pan sees design and process co-operation as the key approach.