People are always asking “What should I expect when I start designing at 20nm using double patterning?” It’s a good question, but in many real aspects, the answer is “It depends,” and that is not very ...

As the unstoppable progression of Moore’s law has driven the semiconductor technology roadmap farther and farther below 1 µm, a steady stream of engineering marvels has been required to produce ...

Scanner resolution improvements have diminished since the 193-nm wavelength became commonplace. Today’s technologies are sufficient for 28-nm IC designs using immersion, but not beyond without ...

Double patterning is a class of technologies developed for photolithography to enhance the feature density of computer chips. The resolution of a photoresist pattern begins to blur at around 45 nm ...

As major foundries announce the release of their 1.0 versions of 20 nm processes, we now see IC designers moving to production design and implementation of integrated circuits at this node. For many ...

Michael White, director of product marketing, Calibre Physical Verification products, Mentor Graphics At the rate that new technology nodes keep racing by, it sure feels like we’re speeding down the ...