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MEMSIC Introduces World’s Smallest and Most Robust Digital Accelerometer With Features Never Before Available at This Price- Point

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Friday, October 28, 2011

MEMSIC Introduces World’s Smallest and Most Robust Digital Accelerometer With Features Never Before Available at This Price- Point

MEMSIC Inc.a leading provider of MEMS devices and sensor- based systems has announced the availability of its MXC6226XC MEMS two-axis digital accelerometer, the world’s smallest, fully-integrated MEMS accelerometer. Based on MEMSIC’s patented MEMS thermal technology, it is manufactured using a standard 0.18um CMOS process and advanced wafer- level packaging (WLP). The resulting device demonstrates MEMSIC’s leadership in providing state-of-the-art motion sensing functions at a price- point never before available to designers of cost sensitive systems like cell phones, toys, games, cameras and appliances. The MXC6226XC accelerometer provides superior performance and functionality to designers who have previously not been able to consider motion sensing for their products. MEMSIC’s MXC6226XC enables designers to significantly enhance the value of their product. It also serves as a high value-added replacement to designs employing mechanical switches, which are much less reliable and less capable.
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SiTime Delivers Timing Industry’s Highest Performance Differential Oscillators

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Monday, October 24, 2011

SiTime Delivers Timing Industry’s Highest Performance Differential Oscillators

SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company, today introduced the timing industry’s highest performance differential oscillators with 10 PPM stability and only 500 femtoseconds of jitter, a unique combination that is only available from SiTime. The SiT9121 and SiT9122MEMS oscillators are targeted at high performance telecom, storage and networking applications such as core and edge routers, SATA / SAS / FibreChannel host bus adapters, cloud storage, servers, wireless base stations and 10G Ethernet switches. These devices can be configured exactly to the customer’s specification and shipped with the industry’s fastest lead times. In addition, each device has industry-standard footprints, enabling easy replacement of quartz differential oscillators without any design or layout changes.
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Training on imec-SiGeMEMS technology: September 21-23, 2011 – Leuven, Belgium

Posted in: Coventor Blog, Previous Events by Marketing | Comments Off Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Three day training course aims to introduce the attendees to imec SiGeMEMS technology, the first publicly accessible technology (through EUROPRACTICE MPWs) to offer integration with CMOS circuits. The technology related component of the course therefore deals with the actual MEMS technology on one hand, but it also addresses its integration with TSMC CMOS circuits on the other hand.
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MEMS Needs & Opportunities Workshop: September 15-16, 2011 – Brighton, England

Posted in: Coventor Blog, Previous Events by Marketing | Comments Off Thursday, September 15, 2011

iNEMI is hosting a workshop to discuss the challenges of developing and adopting MEMS, featuring speakers from OEMs, suppliers, and research institutions working on MEMS technology development – including Dr. Gerold Shropfer of Coventor who will discuss trends in MEMS+IC design. The workshop is intended to foster collaboration through the MEMS supply chain, and will work toward forming action groups and defining research and development programs. Participation will enable attendees to help set the MEMS agenda for the electronics industry. Those who participate in the follow-on collaborative programs will enjoy a competitive advantage as new technologies and methodologies are developed and deployed to drive MEMS industry best practices.
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Intel Announces Production-Ready 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate Transistor

Posted in: Coventor Blog by Marketing | Comments Off Thursday, May 5, 2011

Yesterday Intel announced its readiness for high-volume manufacturing of 3-D tri-gate (FinFET) transistors. Among other benefits, the tri-gate configuration allows Intel to manufacture higher performance fully-depleted devices without resorting to Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafers. The performance gains quoted by Intel over their own 32nm planar transistor technology are impressive, including a 37% speed increase at low voltage , 18% speed increase at high voltage and 50% or greater power reduction at constant performance. All these performance benefits come with only a 2-3% cost increase.
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Process Simulation vs. Process Emulation: is SEMulator3D really TCAD?

Posted in: Coventor Blog by Marketing | Comments Off Saturday, April 2, 2011

I was interested to note that Silvaco has recently listed SEMulator3D as a competitor for their VICTORY Process Cell software on their website. It’s great to be mentioned as a contender in the TCAD process simulation space. But I’d like to take the opportunity to examine the following question – are SEMulator3D and VICTORY Process Cell really direct competitors?

On the surface, both SEMulator3D and VICTORY Process Cell can do some similar things. Both tools are fast, layout driven process modeling engines that are designed to build 3D models of MEMS and semiconductor devices. Both tools can model individual process steps or entire process sequences, and can model a variety of process and device types. And both tools can create meshes suitable for further physics simulation.

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