Design-Reuse

Circuit Design in FinFET Technologies: Evolution or Revolution?

All of the major foundries have announced FinFET technologies for their most advanced processes. Intel introduced this transistor at the 22 nm node, TSMC for their 16 nm process, and Samsung and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Automatic Layout Generator Targeting Region-based Layouts for Advanced FinFET-Based Full-Custom Circuits (UT Austin/NVIDIA)

A technical paper titled “AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies” was published by researchers at UT Austin and NVIDIA. “This paper presents AutoCRAFT, an ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ESD Co-Design For High-Speed SerDeS In FinFET Technologies

An electronic device is susceptible to Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage during its entire life cycle, including the phase from the completion of the silicon wafer processing to when the device ...
EDN

Synopsys Implementation Solution Included in TSMC 16-nm Reference Flow for FinFET Design

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced delivery of a comprehensive design ...
Nasdaq

Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys Accelerate RFIC Semiconductor Design with New Reference Flow for TSMC’s Advanced 4nm RF FinFET Process

New reference flow offers open, efficient radio frequency design solution using TSMC N4PRF process Industry-leading electromagnetic simulation tools boost WiFi-7 system performance and power ...
Nanowerk

FinFET with the world's smallest characteristics variability

(Nanowerk News) Takashi Matsukawa and Meishoku Masahara and others, Silicon Nano-Device Group, the Nanoelectronics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...
Design-Reuse

Mentor Graphics Design and Verification Tools Certified for TSMC 16nm FinFET Production

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 15, 2014-- Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that its IC design to silicon solution has achieved certification for TSMC's Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE ...
EDN

Analog design automation: Pipe dream or inevitability?

To start, I am not a career analog design engineer. I have worked for years as an analog/RF design engineer, including a stint in analog/mixed-signal IC design and layout. I also studied control ...
Nature

Low-Power CMOS Flip-Flop Design and Power Management

Recent advances in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have underscored the importance of power-efficient flip-flop designs for modern electronic systems. Over recent years, ...
Electronic Design

Low-Power Analog Interface Circuit Design Techniques For SoCs

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The quest for power reduction in electronic circuits is one of the main drivers of circuit design innovation. Recently, ...
Electronic Design

Circuit Editing Evolves to Meet Semiconductor Needs

What circuit edit is and the financial and time-saving benefits in product development. Next-generation semiconductors and their potential impact on circuit edit. How advances in circuit-edit ...