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Carbon Design Systems Announces Performance, Power Analysis in TSMC Reference Flow 11.0
Carbon Design Systems today announced that TSMC added Carbon Model Studio and SoC Designer Plus to TSMC Reference Flow 11.0. The Carbon products used in Reference Flow 11.0 support performance and power analysis at the System (ESL) and register transfer level (RTL), and also provide a platform for pre-silicon software development.
Magma - Titan Analog Design Kit for TSMC 180-nm/65-nm nodes
Magma Design Automation announced immediate availability of the Titan Analog Design Kit for TSMC 180-nanometer (nm) and 65-nm processes, that implements Titan’s model-based design methodology with Titan FlexCells, which are modular, process- and specification-independent, reusable analog building blocks. The kit provides an analog design ecosystem that enables mutual Magma and TSMC customers to dramatically improve design quality and designer p...
Imec presents breakthrough results in resistive-switching (R)RAM
At this week’s VLSI Technology Symposium (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA), imec presents significant improvements in performance and reliability of RRAM cells by process improvements and clever stack-engineering, and imec introduces a new modeling approach increasing the fundamental understanding of RRAM process technology.
Imec Shows New Paths to Scaling Advanced Gatestack and Channel Material for Next-generation CMOS at the VLSI 2012 Symposium
In the effort to enhance the advanced metal-high-k gate stack for next-generation logic devices, imec successfully demonstrated higher-k dielectric with Replacement Metal Gate (Metal-Gate-Last) transistors that achieved 200x-1000x reduction in gate leakage relative to leading-edge logic devices in the industry with HfO2 high-k gate dielectric.
GORE UPW Filters Improve Water Quality and Particle Retention in Microelectronics Manufacturing
W. L. Gore & Associates is offering a new family of highly efficient cartridge filters that improve water quality and reduce total cost of filtration for ultrapure water (UPW) and de-ionized (DI) water used in the manufacture of semiconductors and silicon wafers.
Cadence Encounter and Virtuoso Design Platforms Receive TSMC 20nm Phase I Certification
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that its Encounter digital and Virtuoso custom/analog design platforms achieved TSMC Phase I certification for 20-nanometer design, implementation and verification/signoff. TSMC certified the tools for 20-nanometer design rule manuals and SPICE models.
TSMC Expands Physical Verification Support in Integrated Sign-off Flow with Magma Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS
Magma Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that TSMC has selected Quartz DRC and Quartz LVS for physical verification in TSMC’s Integrated Sign-off Flow (ISF). TSMC provides certified flow comprising proven, best-in-class tools to enable the fastest path to TSMC silicon. The flow is now available for 65-nanometer (nm) designs.
Imec reports progress in deep sub-micron scaling for logic and memory
At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec’s advanced CMOS research program reports promising advances in scaling logic, DRAM and non-volatile memory. A new device based on non-silicon channels was realized to scale high-performance logic towards the sub-20nm node. Moreover, imec developed low-leakage capacitors allowing DRAM to be pushed to the 2x nm node. And the switching mechanism of resistive RAM for next-generatio...
Imec reports breakthrough in narrow pitch interconnects
Imec sets major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach.