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Synopsys and TowerJazz Join to Qualify Synopsys’ Custom Design Solution for 180-nm iPDK

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that they have collaborated to qualify Synopsys’ custom design solution with TowerJazz’s 180-nanometer (nm) power management (PM) interoperable process design kit (iPDK) and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) PM reference flow.

From Synopsys, Inc. 19 Nov 2010

ORNL Researchers Develop New Method to Pack Tiny Circuits on Microchip Wafers

Computer chips are the raw material of the Cyber Age. As computer developers come up with machines that process more and more data faster and faster, they push the chip manufacturers closer to the limits of their production technologies.

19 Nov 2010

New Research Unveils Principles Behind Quantum Physics

Researchers have uncovered a fundamental link between the two defining properties of quantum physics. Stephanie Wehner of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technologies and the National University of Singapore and Jonathan Oppenheim of the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge published their work today in the latest edition of the journal Science.

19 Nov 2010

HELIOS Project Develops Processes to Accelerate Silicon Photonics Adoption

CEA-Leti, coordinator of the European HELIOS project to accelerate commercialization of silicon photonics, said today project partners demonstrated a laser and a 10Gb/s silicon modulator using a process that is compatible with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing.

18 Nov 2010

Synopsys’s IC Validator Qualifies for 40 nm, 65 nm DRC/LVS Runsets of TSMC

Synopsys, Inc. a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that its IC Validator physical verification product is qualified for TSMC's 40-nm and 65-nm interoperable DRC/LVS runsets, and is immediately available to TSMC customers.

From Synopsys, Inc. 18 Nov 2010

New Experimental Tool to Study Nanoscale Interactions in Molecular Devices

As electronics become smaller and smaller the need to understand nanoscale phenomena becomes greater and greater. Because materials exhibit different properties at the nanoscale than they do at larger scales, new tech...

From University of California, Los Angeles 18 Nov 2010

WiSpry Uses Patented Tunable RF Technology to Enhance Antenna Performance

WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced its technology is poised to tackle what in recent news has become the scourge of the wireless han...

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Create an Alternative to Conventional Logic Gates Using Silicon

In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates."

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Discover New Imaging Tool to Screen Nanotubes

Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for rapidly screening structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes, possibly hastening their use in creating a new class of computers and electronics that are faster and consume less power than today's.

17 Nov 2010

Imec Creates New Neural Probe

Imec, together with its partners within the European FP6 Program NeuroProbes, has created a new neural probe enabling electrical and chemical recording and stimulation of single neurons in the brain.

From IMEC 17 Nov 2010