Q: You have often written about the legal problems arising in the course of the host-IC relationship. If our agency were to design a hosting program and IC contract from scratch, what terms and ...

The problematic circuit tester lifts an IC into delicate finger contacts to test the chip. After one workshop, engineers with National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Calif., modified a machine that tests ...

Placing logic on logic may sound like a small step, but several problems must be overcome to make it a reality. True 3D involves wafers stacked on top of each other in a highly integrated manner. This ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a global leader in NAND flash controller integrated circuits and storage solutions, today entered into the high-speed ...

The power-performance-area (PPA) metric and time-to-market of modern system-on-chips (SoCs) are dominated by two major issues: on-chip interconnects and layout parasitics. Especially, as the industry ...

At the beginning of any chip design, engineers rarely discuss reliability and operation at the extremes of the device's temperature range. If parts have not been properly characterized, failures can ...

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Throughout the history of the IC industry, each scaling advance to a new process node has presented a raft of new challenges. In the recent past, relatively straightforward spacing, width, and overlap ...

San Jose, August 11, 2021 –Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX: 8299), a global leader in NAND flash controller integrated circuits and storage solutions, today entered into the high-speed interface IC ...