Electronic Design

CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation: Second Edition

As author R. Jacob “Jake” Baker points out in the preface to this comprehensive volume, CMOS technology has dominated the fabrication of ICs for 25 years, and is likely to dominate it for another 25 ...
Electronic Design

Layout-Dependent Modeling Boosts CMOS Gate Density

A layout-dependent circuit-design model from Toshiba helps boost gate density and improve cost-performance in next-generation 45-nm CMOS technology. More specifically, 45-nm CMOS gate density can be 2 ...
EDN

IC Performance: Challenges in Layout with CMOS Technology Nodes

Editor’s note: I am pleased to bring you an important technical blog by Fernando Lavalle, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University and his colleague, Suraj Prakash, who have been working and studying ...
Electronics Weekly

Brush up on your IC design skills

Ireland-based IC Mask Design is offering a range of training courses on IC layout aimed at all levels of expertise which focus on the development of physical design skills. The ‘Master-IC’ courses, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Future Of MEMS Design: Making MEMS Design More Like CMOS Design

MEMS-based component suppliers want to rapidly ramp their designs into high-volume production. This demand is driving MEMS suppliers to focus on ways to more efficiently re-use established process ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Field-Coupled Nanocomputing: Scalable And Efficient Post-Layout Optimization (TU Munich)

A new technical paper titled “Efficient and Scalable Post-Layout Optimization for Field-coupled Nanotechnologies” was published by researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). “As ...