July 20, 2018

Everything You Need to Know about FDSOI Technology – Advantages, Disadvantages, and Applications of FDSOI

This blog is a summary of a technical and business review of FDSOI technology. Read the full paper here. Over the past decades, transistor feature size has continuously decreased, leading […]
December 19, 2017

What the Experts Think: Delivering the Next 5 Years of Semiconductor Technology

Coventor recently sponsored an expert panel discussion at IEDM 2017 to discuss how we might advance the semiconductor industry into the next generation of technology.  The panel discussed alternative methods […]
November 20, 2017

Delivering the Next 5 Years of Semiconductor Technology

New, advanced semiconductor processing and architectural technologies take years to perfect and put into production. In the meantime, semiconductor customers continue to demand faster, smaller and higher functioning devices. Semiconductor […]
July 14, 2017

3D Model-Based Process Control for the Future of Smart Manufacturing

David Fried, CTO of Coventor, gave a presentation entitled “3D Model-Based Process Control for the Future of Smart Manufacturing” at SEMICON West 2017. Listen to this presentation to gain an understanding […]
June 14, 2017

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS): Past, Present & Future

Over the last decade, CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) technology has made impressive progress. Image sensor performance has dramatically improved over the years, and CIS technology has enjoyed great commercial success […]
February 16, 2017

Semiconductor Process Development: Finding a Faster Way to Profitability

Building a chip fabrication facility requires billions of dollars in investment for land, buildings, processing equipment, chemical and hazardous material safety, not to mention the deployment of hundreds of highly […]
December 2, 2016

Coventor’s Technology Roundtable at IEDM 2016

Coventor Spearheads Discussion on Navigating Future Semiconductor Yield, Reliability and Cost Challenges CARY, NC– December 6, 2016 – Coventor®, Inc., the leading supplier of automated software solutions for semiconductor devices […]
April 14, 2016

The Future of MEMS Sensor Design and Manufacturing

There are three industry trends that I believe will have major implications for motion sensor design and manufacturing and, more generally, for other types of high-volume MEMS such as microphones: […]
March 12, 2015

Defect Evolution in 3D NAND Flash

3D NAND Flash has become a hot topic in non-volatile memory these days. While planar NAND flash is still going strong, it has been increasingly difficult to scale planar technology […]
June 26, 2014

What will the next 30 years of MEMS bring?

Coventor attended the Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference last week, known simply as “Hilton Head” to the North American MEMS and nanotechnology community. This is a delightful conference […]