More aggressive feature scaling and increasingly complex transistor structures are driving a steady increase in process complexity, increasing the risk that a specified pattern may not be ...

Until now, designing complex metamaterials with specific mechanical properties required large and costly experimental and simulation datasets. The method enables ...

[Image: courtesy Paul Howard Harrison] Among those field testing these tools are architects and designers. Some are beginning to use them as powerful new avenues for visualizing early stage concepts, ...

A directive issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to stymie sales of EDA (electronic design automation) tools directly to China was destined to be a talking ...

For decades, the design of leading-edge chips has been a high-wire act—balancing tight deadlines, sophisticated workflows, and the relentless need to consult scattered, often outdated, sources of ...

A full set of Open-Source tools is available to enable digital, analog, and mixed-signal ASIC design from schematic capture through tapeout. Tools installation is simply a matter of installing a VM ...

Component design and reliability have never been more relevant than in today’s demanding market. Ultra-fast, super-precision angular contact ball bearings can handle extremely high rotational speeds ...

Design software is transforming the design process at a swift pace. Some of the advances are due to new technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Other advances are due to the demands of user ...

At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain disruptions caused shortages that left many essential workers without personal protective equipment, stores with empty shelves and long delays ...