May 31, 2018
The authors descirbe a new signature-based approach to resolving the content of layouts in GDSII, OASIS and other formats.
April 23, 2018
Why design data integrity matters from cell design to tapeout. These techniques will help ensure your validation process is as comprehensive as possible.
April 17, 2018
Insights from research into reliability at Imec led to self-learning chips, security technologies, and finFET biosensors.
March 29, 2018
3D integration technology has split into a number of different approaches, each of which brings a different combination of benefits in terms of performance.
February 1, 2018
A new technique has been developed to catch potential new lithography issues when little design data is available for incoming nodes.
January 15, 2018
How to get the best PV results by reducing computational demands; handling data more efficiently and exploiting parallelization.
November 24, 2017
John Ferguson reviews the key capital metrics you need to review when deciding whether to move to a new process.
October 27, 2017
How to address increasingly complex patterning issues and debug them efficiently as design moves toward 12 and 10nm.
September 21, 2017
Diagnosis-driven yield analysis identifies the cause of systematic yield loss to speed the ramp-to-volume on new processes and improve yield on mature ones.
September 14, 2017
An alphabet soup of AI, HPC, 5G and the IoT has finally seeded creation of a design infrastructure for silicon photonics.