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BiCMOS process overview

While the entire semiconductor industry is excited about FinFET and FDSOI process technologies, there is one semiconductor technology that considered by engineers as “the process for real men” and it’s called BiCMOS.
 
BiCMOS process is essentially a combination of Bipolar transistor and CMOS transistors, it offers many technical advantages

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Sony spins off chipmaking business

Sony has announced that its semiconductor unit will now be separated from the company’s core business. The strategic decision arrived in order to allow the Japanese electronic firm to focus its resources and attentions on the Devices and the Digital image divisions. This last one in particular, in fact, has

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Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone

Interesting and surprising cooperation: Intel is developing the modem chip to be used in the next iPhone’s devices. To meet Apple’s tough and tight schedule IBM has allocated a staff of about 1,000 people. Intel’s foothold in what is expected to be the world’s best-selling smartphone has a dramatic importance

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STATS ChipPAC Sold to China’s JCET

According to the latest reports, Temasek and China’s Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology Co Ltd (JCET) just signed a $1.8 million deal that will allow JCET to acquire STATS ChipPAC from Temasek.
 
 

 
The decision followed the new internal financial policy at Temsasek which aims to diversify the

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Skyworks is buying PMC Sierra for $2 billion in Cash

PMC-Sierra, a provider of data center chips, will soon be part of the radio components manufacturer Skyworks after signing a $2billion purchase agreement.
 
Notwithstanding the fact that this deal might sound strange to many, the decision occurred as a simple product expansion and a chance to widen the buying

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Scan Test Power Normalization Using Hierarchical Test Flow

Introduction
 
Low power test efforts in SOC design are broadly classified into – fine tuning ATPG patterns, enhancing collaterals for supporting low power ATPG, architecture for low power DFT, improving estimation and correlation. The flow discussed here comes under the category of “fine tuning ATPG patterns”.
 
Currently due

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