“With the improvement of VLSI technology, on-chip power grid design is becoming more challenging than before. In this design phase of VLSI CAD, power grids are generated in order to make power and ...

What just happened? In its ongoing battle against VLSI, a now-defunct manufacturer of custom integrated circuits (ICs), Intel must pay a hefty fine for infringing a patent granted almost two decades ...

(Reuters) - A federal jury in Texas on Tuesday said Intel Corp must pay VLSI Technology LLC $948.8 million for infringing a VLSI patent for computer chips. VLSI, a patent-holding company affiliated ...

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad has introduced a new program at the Centre of Continuing Education (CCE) in partnership with TCS iON, which is an online certification program titled ...

There is an analogy Lynn Conway brings up when trying to explain what is now known as the “Mead & Conway Revolution” in chip design history. Before the Web, the Internet had been chugging along for ...

With the Centre giving a big boost to the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) by announcing four semiconductor projects, including one in Andhra Pradesh, city-based Andhra University (AU) is preparing ...

If you’re planning your career in the semiconductor industry, make sure you consider processor design. Now the aspiring VLSI engineers like you can implement the open-source processor RISC-V while ...

Georgia Tech’s ECE undergrads design custom mixed-signal ASICs that are then fabricated by Texas Instruments on 300-mm wafers and returned for testing. These aren’t garden-variety analog “jellybean” ...

When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA) (Fig. 1). The CGA AIB had 16 Kbytes of video ...