Experts at the Table, part 2: How the very fast progress of the semiconductor industry is making transistor aging even more difficult. Elhak: Yes. If you take the same transistor with the same stress ...

In a recent study done by McKinsey and IDC, we see that physical design and verification costs are increasing exponentially with shrinking transistor sizes. As figure 1 shows, physical design (PD) and ...

Advanced process technologies, such as 90nm, 65nm, 45nm and below, present significant power management challenges for high performance semiconductors. Chip designers face increasing challenges in ...