Semiconductor Engineering

Process Variation Not A Solved Issue

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 ...
EDN

Designing for process variation at 130 nm

Advanced process technologies are generating significant challenges for modern IC designers as the physics of the 130- and 90-nanometer generation bring what were previously noise-level effects to the ...
EDN

Process variation: you can’t ignore statistics any more

I like to say that “you can’t ignore the physics any more” to point out that we have to worry about lots of physical effects that we never needed to consider. But “you can’t ignore the statistics any ...
Nasdaq

Synopsys Introduces PrimeLib Unified Library Characterization and Validation Solution for Accelerated Access to Advanced Process Nodes

Integrated PrimeSim simulation technology, PrimeTime signoff STA validation and SmartScaling for multi-PVT yields high-quality libraries for faster design convergence PrimeLib ML and advanced ...