SE: Especially with advanced nodes, there are many types of variation in the process and today’s design and verification tools have to understand this. How does variation impact the sphere of your ...

Experts at the Table, part 2: How the very fast progress of the semiconductor industry is making transistor aging even more difficult. Elhak: Yes. If you take the same transistor with the same stress ...

Performance metrics for processes are an area of much regulatory interest currently. There isn’t always a readily available clear definition of what is needed, however, and guidance from regulators is ...

New SOC (system-on-chip) process technology brings with it some process, voltage, and temperature effects, as well as IR drop, which all impact timing closure. Designers can model the on-chip ...

Abstract: In advanced optical lithography, it is critical to obtain a mask with high fidelity to a target pattern and strong tolerance to process variation within a short time. This article formulates ...

Abstract: With low latency and collision-free communication, wavelength-routed optical networks-on-chip (WRONoC) become an effective solution to the growing demands for multi-core communications.