Design software is transforming the design process at a swift pace. Some of the advances are due to new technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Other advances are due to the demands of user ...

Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...

LONDON — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has licensed the 90-nanometer “common design enablement technology” utilized by IBM and Chartered, Chartered said Tuesday (May 24). As a result of this license ...

In the aerospace industry today, “innovation cycles are shrinking,” said Bradley Rothenberg. “Projects that were once given 5 years must now be done in 18 months,” he added, calling it a “tough shift.

Process design kits consist of a set of files that typically contain descriptions of the basic building blocks of the process. They are expressed, algorithmically, as Pcells. These descriptions are ...