SAN JOSE, Calif. — As two new standards initiatives take aim at making process design kits easier to use, questions are arising about the usefulness of the design rules embedded in PDKs and the design ...

Why should there be an interest in Package Assembly Design Kits (PADK) today? For the most part, it is due to the advancement in the accumulation of files forming the PADK now offering a customized ...

Success in the semiconductor industry depends on getting increasingly complex products to market on time. This industry has worked hard over the years to realize gains promised by Moore’s Law, and the ...

The latest revision of austriamicrosystems’ analog/mixed signal high performance process design kit (“HIT-Kit”) is now available for its 0.35-µm CMOS, high-voltage CMOS, and SiGe-BiCMOS specialty ...

Unlike the traditional system on chip (SoC) design process, which has fully qualified verification methods embodied in the form of process design kits (PDKs), chip design companies and outsourced ...