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Samsung Starts Mass Producing of Industry’s First 10nm DRAM

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nanometer (nm) class* , 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and the modules derived from them. DDR4 is quickly becoming the most widely produced memory for personal computers and IT

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Evolution of the Test Bench

Nothing is permanent except change and need constantly guides innovation. Taking a holistic view with reference to a theme throws light on the evolution of the subject. In a pursuit to double the transistors periodically, the design representation has experienced a shift from transistors  à gates à RTL and now to synthesizable models. As

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TSMC will Build a 12” Fab in China

TSMC, the world’s largest pure-play semiconductor foundry, plans to build a 12“ wafer fab a service center in Nanjing, China.
 
The new facility in China would be able to produce up to 20,000 12” wafers per month and will start production of 16-nanometer process technology in 2018, according to

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Cadence Design Tools Certified for TSMC 7nm Design Starts and 10nm Production

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that its digital, signoff and custom/analog tools have achieved V1.0 Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE certification from TSMC for its 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process. Cadence and TSMC are also continuing to collaborate on the advancement of 7nm technologies and have completed

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IDDQ Testing

Iddq testing is one of the many ways to test CMOS integrated circuits in production. These circuits are usually tested as a way to find different types of manufacturing faults. Electric faults can be a major hazard and it can even lead to fatalities. This method relies on measuring the

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NVM Express IP for Enterprise SSDs – Overview and Implementation

The NVM Express (NVMe) specification has been introduced in 2011. Five years later, it is definitely adopted as the new standard storage interface for Solid-State Drives (SSD). Even if SAS and SATA SSDs are still dominating the market (in unit shipment), the PCIe SSD market share is growing fast and

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