Semiconductor Engineering | By Ed Sperling | September 20, 2018
Variation is becoming a bigger challenge at each new node, but not just for obvious reasons and not always from the usual sources. Nevertheless, dealing with these issues takes additional time and resources, and it can affect the performance and reliability of those chips throughout their lifetimes. Click to Read More…

Semiconductor Engineering | By Ed Sperling | August 22, 2018
Research Company, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about how AI and Big Data techniques will be used to improve yield and quality in chip manufacturing. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. Click to Read More…

SEMI.org | By Paula Doe | June 27, 2018
The fast-maturing infrastructure now enabling analysis of exponentially larger data volumes brings the microelectronics industry to an inflection point, where the winning companies will be the first to master the use of this data to solve the industry’s emerging challenges. SEMI expands its coverage of these vital issues with a Smart Manufacturing Pavilion and three days of talks SEMICON West, July 10-12 in San Francisco. Click to Read More…

EE Journal | By Bryon Moyer | June 25, 2018
Two years ago at the annual DATE conference in Europe, a MEMS design contest was announced. Sponsored by Reutlingen University, Coventor, X-Fab, and Cadence, the goal was to stimulate creative ideas for MEMS technology. The sponsors each had a part: Coventor and Cadence provided tools for the design process, and X-Fab signed up to build the winning design. Reutlingen University helped with the organizing efforts. Click to Read More…

Semiconductor Engineering | By Mark Lapedus | June 22, 2018
Chipmakers continue to scale the transistor at advanced nodes, but they are struggling to maintain the same pace with the other two critical parts of the device—the contacts and interconnects. Click to Read More…

Semiconductor Engineering | By Mark Lapedus | June 22, 2018
As chipmakers begin to ramp up 10nm/7nm technologies in the market, vendors are also gearing up for the development of a next-generation transistor type at 3nm. Click to Read More…

SEMI.org | By Paula Doe | June 13, 2018
The fast-maturing hardware and software that are enabling practical applications of equipment intelligence and machine learning mean disruptive change for microelectronics manufacturing. But first comes the basic work of building the basic infrastructure, figuring out IP separation, and learning to solve physical problems in the digital world. Click to Read More…

EE Journal | By Amelia Dalton | June 8, 2018
What do electrostatic transduction, non-linear MEMS sensors, caffeine dosing strategies, and a glowing Death Star have in common? This here podcast! First up, we explore the Global MEMS Design Contest with Christine Dufour (Coventor – A LAM Research Company). Christine and I discuss the details of the winning designs and how design contests foster innovation in the electronic engineering ecosystem. Also this week, we check out an algorithm developed by the United States Army that aims to “optimize an ideal caffeine dosage strategy” and take a closer look at the “The World’s Most Accurate Death Star Replica Firepit”. Click to Listen to the Episode…

Electronique Composants & Instrumentation | By Par A.Dieul | May 16, 2018
À l’occasion du CDNLive EMEA 2018, la conférence annuelle des utilisateurs organisée par Cadence, Coventor, Cadence Design Systems, X-FAB et l’Université de Reutlingen ont annoncé la liste des lauréats du concours Global MEMS Design 2018. Click to Listen to the Episode…

Components in Electronics | By Amy Wallington | May 14, 2018
Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University announced the grand prize winner of the Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 at CDNLive EMEA 2018, the Cadence annual user conference. A team from ESIEE Paris and Sorbonne University received the grand prize award for designing an innovative MEMS-based energy harvesting product using electrostatic transduction. Energy harvesting products can be used in implantable medical devices and other portable electronics that need to operate without an external power source. Click to Read More…

Engineer News Network | By Göte Fagerfjäll | May 11, 2018
Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University have announced the grand prize winner of the Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 at CDNLive EMEA 2018, the Cadence annual user conference. A team from ESIEE Paris and Sorbonne University received the grand prize award for designing a MEMS-based energy harvesting product using electrostatic transduction. Click to Read More…

Elektronik i Norden | By Göte Fagerfjäll | May 10, 2018
Ett lag från ESIEE Paris och Sorbonne University vann priset för innovativ användning av MEMS och analog/digital konstruktion. Det vinnande bidraget utvinner energi från mekanisk vibration. Click to Read More…

Sensors Online | By Mathew Dirjish | May 9, 2018
Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University announced the grand prize winner of the Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 at CDNLive EMEA 2018, the Cadence® annual user conference. A team from ESIEE Paris and Sorbonne University received the grand prize award for designing an innovative MEMS-based energy harvesting product using electrostatic transduction. Energy harvesting products can be used in implantable medical devices and other portable electronics that need to operate without an external power source. Click to Read More…

Elettronica News | By Fabio Boiocchi | May 9, 2018
In occasione della CDNLive EMEA 2018, la conferenza annuale degli utenti Cadence®, Coventor, Cadence Design Systems, X-FAB e Reutlingen University hanno annunciato i vincitori del Global MEMS Design Contest 2018. Click to Read More…

Markt & Technik | By Irish Stroh| May 9, 2018
Kolme vuotta sitten Cadencen CDNLive-tapahtumassa nousi esiin ajatus opiskelijoille järjestettävästä MEMS-suunnittelukilpailusta. Nyt Global MEMS Design Contest -kilpailun on saatu päätökseen ja tulokset osoittavat, että opiskelijat kyllä keksivät tekniikalle monenlaista käyttöä, kun siihen suodaan mahdollisuus. Click to Read More…

Channel-e| By Hartmut Rogge | May 9, 2018
Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB und die Hochschule Reutlingen haben den Gewinner des Hauptpreises des Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 auf der jährlichen Anwenderkonferenz von Cadence, der CDNLive EMEA 2018, bekannt gegeben. Click to Read More…

Electronic Specifier Germany| By Victoria Chercasova | May 9, 2018
München, Deutschland – Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB und die Hochschule Reutlingen haben den Gewinner des Hauptpreises des Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 auf der jährlichen Anwenderkonferenz von Cadence, der CDNLive EMEA 2018, bekannt gegeben. Ein Team der ESIEE Paris und der Sorbonne Universität haben den Hauptpreis für ein innovatives MEMS-basiertes Energy-Harvesting-Produkt erhalten, das mit elektrostatischer Umwandlung arbeitet.Click to Read More…

Tech Design Forum | By Chris Edwards | May 9, 2018
A team of students from France has won the Global MEMS Design Contest 2018 with a proposed design that harvests from motion using electrostatic transduction. The team from EISEE Paris and Sorbonne University will now see its proposal turned into physical devices by X-Fab as well as picking up a $5000 cash prize. Click to Read More…

EE Journal | By Bryon Moyer | May 7, 2018
Coventor released its most recent version of their SEMulator3D tool not long ago. Just as a refresher, this is the tool that lets process engineers model, analyze, and visualize the impact of a semiconductor process. If you’ve seen nothing else about them, you might have seen animated movies of a process building itself up layer by layer in a conference presentation here or there. Click to Read More…

Semiconductor Engineering | By Ed Sperling | February 21, 2018
Fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) is gaining ground across a number of new markets, ranging from IoT to automotive to machine learning, and diverging sharply from its original position as a less costly alternative to finFET-based designs. Click to Read More…

MEMS Journal | By Mike Pinelis | January 25, 2018
In August of 2017, Lam Research completed the acquisition of Coventor, a MEMS modeling and simulation software company, for a total purchase consideration of $137.6 million. When asked about how Coventor fits into Lam’s portfolio, the company’s Executive VP and CFO Douglas Bettinger said that, potentially, there are benefits and synergies with Coventor’s software capability to model and simulate the actual output of Lam’s equipment. We recently spoke with Stephen Breit, Coventor’s Sr. Director of MEMS, and discussed the trends that he is seeing in the MEMS marketplace. Since Coventor works with many MEMS companies, we also asked Stephen about the notable startups and technologies. Click to Read More…