DTCO

DTCO (design technology co-optimization) looks to address systemic verification challenges but the process still needs to be extended.

The IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits switches back to Honolulu for its 44th year in the summer of next year and has issued its call for papers, with a deadline of early February for contributions.

Backside power delivery could lead to improvements in chip density and more straightforward place-and-route phases according to work presented at this year’s VLSI Symposium.

Intel Foundry Services has signed a deal with Arm that will see the two companies work on a program of system and design-technology co-optimization.

Adding an MOL layer that takes advantage of a self-aligned pitch-splitting technique and a rotated layout could cut standard-cell height to 4T.

Primarius Technologies is making additions to its portfolio of library-design and verification tools at DAC next week.

Aiming for a primarily physical event in the fall, organisers of the 2021 IEDM have published the tutorial and short-core schedule.

Mentor, a Siemens business, plans to expand the team working on the Aprisa place-and-route tool following the purchase of Avatar Integrated Systems, announced in July.

DTCO and 3D integration will dominate scaling in the coming decade, TSMC chief scientist Philip Wong claimed in his keynote at DAC on Monday

Collaboration on DTCO offers IBM a better way to evaluate combinations of transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations using design metrics, before real wafers become available for physical experimentation.