Power supply noise and related issues have become critical for designs at 90nm and below due to the combination of several factors. Timing slowdown and functional failures are becoming common in these ...

A number of technical challenges have come together to make power grid design one of the most challenging design issues today. Creating the right power grid is a growing problem in leading-edge chips.

Today semiconductor industry are more emphasizing on the die size reduction and less metal layers technology process options to improve gross margins but as we are decreasing more and more die size, ...

A recent trend confusing two quite different terms has had a huge negative impact on the yield, reliability, and manufacturability of DSM (deep-submicron) and subwavelength semiconductor designs. This ...