For past several decades, the processor industry has enjoyed the benefits of chip miniaturization and the exponential increase in the number of on-chip transistors as predicted by Moore's law. However ...

As semiconductor patterning continues to scale, even small layout nonuniformities can lead to noticeably different process outcomes. Real chip layouts contain a mix of dense regions, large open ...

SE: Especially with advanced nodes, there are many types of variation in the process and today’s design and verification tools have to understand this. How does variation impact the sphere of your ...

In this, the fifth instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series I chat with Oliver King about monitoring in-chip conditions in modern SoCs and this time we discuss process detection and ...