As the semiconductor industry continues its relentless march towards smaller process nodes and more complex integrated circuits (ICs), the challenge of ensuring reliability has become increasingly ...

Design rule checking (DRC) represents a common platform by which we can all compare relative rule complexity. The industry expectation is that all foundries will provide complete DRC and layout vs.

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today introduced the Cadence ® Legato™ Reliability Solution, the industry’s first software product that meets the challenges of ...

Hi folk, I’ve been in hunkered down mode for the last few weeks researching and writing my next cover story. This one’s on IC reliability. It’s a subject I haven’t tackled before and quite frankly is ...

Advanced short-geometry CMOS processes are subject to aging that causes major reliability issues, degrading the performance of integrated circuits over time. Two of the most problematic effects ...

NBTI degradation is critical for chip processes using thermal-nitride gate insulators”which are now at such thicknesses that NBTI effects can prevent a chip designer from relying on the expected ...

Reliability testing has long served as a method of ensuring that semiconductor devices maintain their desired performance over a given lifetime. As IC manufacturers continue to introduce new and ...