March 11, 2010 - Industry News
Power To The People
The health of the semiconductor may be heavily influenced by power in the future - the power utility grid, that is, which ultimately connects ...
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March 10, 2010 - Industry News
Bullish Views on Semiconductor Sector in 2010
"The recovery of semiconductor sector is gaining momentum after being able to manage and recover from periods of weak demands. Positive long ...
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March 1, 2010 - Industry News
Expert Shootout: Parasitic Extraction
Low-Power Engineering sat down to discuss parasitic extraction with Robert Hoogenstryd, director of marketing for design analysis and ...
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February 22, 2010 - Technology News
The Monolith Syndrome
Designing and building semiconductors represents the very best of science and mathematics: physics, geometry, thermal mechanics, Boolean logic, ...
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February 15, 2010 - Industry News
Experts At The Table: Where The Money Is
System-Level Design sat down to discuss where the value has shifted in the supply chain with Tom Quan, director at TSMC; Kalar Rajendiran, senior ...
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February 12, 2010 - Technology News
The Growing Problem With Parasitic Extraction
Like everything else in semiconductor engineering at advanced process geometries, parasitic extraction is getting much more difficult at ...
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February 12, 2010 - Technology News
Cutting The Power
A flurry of activity in the last quarter of 2009 suggests power—and particularly low power—is the major focus of this year’s design starts. ...
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February 8, 2010 - Industry News
Where The Money Is
System-Level Design sat down to discuss where the value has shifted in the supply chain with Tom Quan, director at TSMC; Kalar Rajendiran, senior ...
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February 1, 2010 - Industry News
The Trouble With 3D
3D is great when it comes to movies. It's quite another when it involves semiconductor design. For the past several years, large companies have ...
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January 29, 2010 - Technology News
Low-Power And RF Design Heighten Signal-Integrity Concerns
As active devices and interconnect wires shrink and are placed closer together with the march of Moore’s Law, signal integrity is becoming a ...
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January 29, 2010 - Technology News
Remaking The Design Landscape
Every now and then a new trend comes along in the semiconductor design world, often because an old tool doesn’t work well anymore or because a ...
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January 25, 2010 - Technology News
The Paradigm Shift in Parasitic Extraction
In IC design, parasitic extraction is the process by which layout geometries are analyzed and converted to equivalent circuit values for ...
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January 15, 2010 - Technology News
Verifying Low-Power Designs
Power islands and multiple voltages used to be reserved for cell phone and process companies, but as more companies move to 65nm and 45nm ...
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January 15, 2010 - Technology News
But For How Long?
For anyone versed in the fine art of actually getting a low-power semiconductor to tapeout and into real products, there is a firm ...
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December 21, 2009 - Technology News
Chips on String
How would you insert 5 square millimeter chip through a needle? By stretching it into a thin string of 5 square millimeter chips. Well ...
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December 18, 2009 - Technology News
Stacked Dies Gain Attention, But So Far Little Traction
For the better part of two decades there has been a steady stream of predictions about the abrupt end of Moore’s Law, but it now appears ...
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December 18, 2009 - Technology News
Moore's Law Will Never End
Moore’s Law has been many things to many people. It has been a statement of physical limits and an economic formula. It has been the cause of ...
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December 14, 2009 - Industry News
Chip Revenues Grow, but Software is the Future
The headlines look promising for the semiconductor industry. In the latest news, Texas Instruments (TI) and Xilinx are prospering amid a ...
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December 11, 2009 - Technology News
Differentiating Embedded Processors
The embedded processor world addresses a vast range of applications – from the datacenter to the biomedical device – all of which have critical ...
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December 3, 2009 - Technology News
Applied Materials Solves Transistor Scaling Challenge
Applied Materials Solves Critical Transistor Scaling Challenge with New Millisecond Anneal System. Applied announced its new Applied Vantage® ...
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November 2, 2009 - Industry News
Semiconductor Growth – When and Where?
Is an economic recovery underway in the semiconductor business? If so, what markets are most likely to benefit from this recovery? ...
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October 12, 2009 - Technology News
Changing The Economics Of Design
It’s a known medical fact that if you can lower the temperature of the human body by one degree, chances are pretty good that a person will live an ...
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October 5, 2009 - Technology News
Experts At The Table: What’s Next?
Low-Power Design sat down with Leon Stok, EDA director for IBM's System & Technology Group; Antun Domic, senior vice president and general ...
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October 1, 2009 - Industry News
IMEC Steps Towards 3D Integration of DRAM on Logic
A 25µm thick logic die on top of which a commercial DRAM is stacked using through-silicon vias (TSVs) and micro-bumps. IMEC and its 3D integration ...
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September 25, 2009 - Technology News
Experts At The Table: Evolving Standards
System-Level Design sat down with Keith Barkley, senior engineer in IBM’s systems and technology group; Steven Schulz, president and CEO of ...
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