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To 32nm and beyond: a design-manufacturing symbiosis
Nov 01 -- At the 32nm node, technology enablers such as double-patterning, strain enhancement, advanced OPC, etc., require design for manufacturing (DFM) to support a design through manufacturing (D2M) methodology that is correct-by-construction....
 
Remote connectivity reduces costs for burgeoning solar industry
Sep 01 -- The solar industry is blazing a new trail around the globe in a very similar way to the global expansion that the semiconductor industry experienced in the 1990s....
 
Commodity price pain, or sustainable opportunity?
Aug 01 -- Resource constraints are appearing with increasing frequency in our work and personal lives. Those constraints usually present themselves in the form of higher prices—as predicted by the classic supply-and-demand economic model....
 
Managing across-wafer process variation
Jul 01 -- Step-and-scan and resolution enhancements in optical lithography have enabled printing much smaller usable features....
 
Key building blocks for a 22nm transistor
Jun 01 -- Understanding what a 22nm transistor will look like requires answers to many diverse factors. ...
 
Two keys that unlock 45nm OPC
May 01 -- Stepping into the sub-180nm world creates a new reality far different from what we have known and relied on in the past....
 
Riding the wave of CMP
Apr 01 -- CMP is rapidly becoming one of the most important and widespread fab processes enabling the continuation of device shrinks....
 
Scalable MEMS manufacturing
Mar 01 -- Traditionally, MEMS devices have been developed using a combination of custom design and manufacturing techniques in a select number of captive MEMS foundries or in one of the commercial specialty MEMS fabs that have sprung up in recent years....
 
Yield at any cost
Feb 01 -- Photomask costs are a painfully visible issue in today’s competitive semiconductor market....
 
Eco-friendly manufacturing the green path to profitability
Jan 01 -- The semiconductor industry value chain, including materials, equipment, manufacturing, and consumer products, has a long history of creativity and innovation in the “greening” of its operations....
 
Rising lithography costs: Where’s the crisis?
Dec 01 -- As the semiconductor industry has advanced to the beat of Moore’s Law, executives have repeatedly expressed concern about the rising cost of lithography....
 
Pure-play development foundries offer accelerated innovation
Nov 01 -- When process innovation is a requirement, a sound process development strategy is a must. Differentiation on silicon that is process- vs. design-based can hold very high returns for investors and technologists provided the innovation is accelerated via streamlined development efforts that understand both the development and the manufacturing challenges....
 
DFM: What’s real now?
Oct 01 -- After nearly half a decade, design for manufacturing (DFM) has not provided the expected value to erstwhile users, in spite of the perceived need and vaunted advantages....
 
 

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