November 7, 2019
It's the fiftieth International Test Conference this year. How much has been achieved and how much more work is there to do to ensure that we can keep building chips that do what they are supposed to?
October 3, 2018
Exchange frameworks are emerging to make it easier for neural-network developers to swap between development environments.
November 24, 2017
John Ferguson reviews the key capital metrics you need to review when deciding whether to move to a new process.
September 14, 2017
An alphabet soup of AI, HPC, 5G and the IoT has finally seeded creation of a design infrastructure for silicon photonics.
May 22, 2017
Our new columnist introduces himself and traces the progress of formal verification over the last two decades. Join the discussion.
January 27, 2017
Richard Pugh looks at how innovations highlighted during the recent International Memory Workshop are driving the solid state drive (SSD) market.
January 26, 2015
Precise curved geometries are vital to making this emerging and cost-effective CMOS-based technology work. This primer explains its advantages and how litho tools are evolving to meet the challenges it presents.
September 2, 2014
How EDA tools are evolving to make it possible to design with finFET processes.
August 27, 2014
Moving to a finFET process means considering process readiness, cost and yield, as well as the traditional power, performance and area advantages
July 25, 2014
Altera uses standardized design flows to help integrate Intel foundry rules, cut time to tape-out - and speed the evolution of its design flows.