TSMC spins outs processes for automotive and RF
TSMC is developing processes for high-end automotive and RF based off its N5 and N7 families.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
IEDM looks for papers across 2D devices to 3DICs
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Arm rolls clickthrough license scheme into Flexible Access
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Cadence pushes its FastSpice to 32 cores
Cadence has launched a reworked FastSpice engine designed to split work across multiple cores more efficiently.
Denser DRAM looks to flash for inspiration
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Understand how DO-254 defines verification for avionics
The avionics design assurance guidance has its own flavor of verification which needs to be understood alongside its definition of validation.
How MaxLinear cut physical verification time with in-design DRC
A case study describes how the RF and AMS specialist achieved efficiencies on a complex server DSP SoC project by running as-you-go DRC during place and route.