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Triple Patterning

Triple Patterning
by Paul McLellan on 03-19-2014 at 1:00 pm

As you can’t have failed to notice by now, 28nm is the last process node that does not require double patterning. At 20nm and below, at least some layers require double patterning. The tightest spacing is typically not the transistors but the local interconnect and, sometimes, metal 1.


In the litho world they call double patterning… Read More


Atmel on Tour at AT&T Park

Atmel on Tour at AT&T Park
by Paul McLellan on 03-18-2014 at 5:02 pm

OK, it’s not exactly AT&T park…it’s the parking lot. But they have a huge semi loaded up with lots of cool Atmel stuff to show off some of the things that their customers are doing with their microcontrollers and display technology, primarily focused on the internet of things (IoT). I went down to check it … Read More


The Technology to Continue Moore’s Law…

The Technology to Continue Moore’s Law…
by Eric Esteve on 03-17-2014 at 11:59 am

Can we agree about the fact that the Moore’s law is discontinuing after 28nm technology node? This does not mean that the development of new Silicon technology, like 14nm or beyond, or/and new Transistor architecture like FinFET will not happen. There will be a market demand for chips developed on such advanced technologies: mobile… Read More


Galileo, not a barber, but an Intel maker module

Galileo, not a barber, but an Intel maker module
by Don Dingee on 03-13-2014 at 3:00 pm

Words often have much deeper meaning than first meets the ear. The story behind a lyric, or a name, reveals origins, philosophical themes, and ideas beyond the obvious. A new effort from Intel conjures up just such an example – a deep reference to makers everywhere.

In a familiar refrain from Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody,” we hear two… Read More


DSP running 10 times faster at ultra-low voltage?

DSP running 10 times faster at ultra-low voltage?
by Eric Esteve on 03-11-2014 at 12:30 pm

The LETI and STMicro have demonstrated a DSP that can hit 500 MHz while pulling just 460mV – that’s ten times better than anything the industry’s seen so far. Implemented on a 28nm FD-SOI technology, with ultra thin forward body biasing (UTFBB) capability (used to decrease Vth), this DSP can also be exercised at higher voltage when… Read More


The Infamous Intel FPGA Slide!

The Infamous Intel FPGA Slide!
by Daniel Nenni on 03-11-2014 at 10:30 am

As I have mentioned before, I’m part of the Coleman Research Group so you can rent me by the hour to better understand the semiconductor industry. Most of the conversations are by phone but sometimes I do travel to the East Coast, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China for face-to-face meetings. Generally the calls are the result of an event … Read More


Internet of Things and the Wearable Market

Internet of Things and the Wearable Market
by Daniel Nenni on 03-09-2014 at 8:00 pm

My wife and I drove to Southern California last week in search of information on the wearable computing market. After stops in Irvine, San Diego, and some play time in La Jolla we returned in time for the CASPA Symposium: “The Wearable Future: Moving Beyond the Hype; the Search for the Holy Grail and Practical Use Cases”Read More


450mm Delayed and Other SPIE News

450mm Delayed and Other SPIE News
by Scotten Jones on 03-04-2014 at 11:00 pm

Last week I attended the SPIE Advanced Technology Conference. There were a lot of interesting papers and as is always the case at these conferences, there was a lot of interesting things to learn from talking to other attendees on the conference floor.

The first interesting information from the conference floor was that 450mm is… Read More


Baskin-Robbins Only has 31 Flavors. Atmel has 505 Microcontrollers

Baskin-Robbins Only has 31 Flavors. Atmel has 505 Microcontrollers
by Paul McLellan on 03-02-2014 at 4:59 pm

Actually these days even Baskin-Robbins has more, but not 505. But as it says in the title, Atmel have 505 different microcontrollers. That’s a lot. Some are AVR, both 8 bit and 32 bit, and some are various flavors of ARM (all 32 bit) ranging from older parts like the ARM9 to various flavors of Cortex ranging from the M0 (tiny microcontroller… Read More


Gobi, the Jewel in Qualcomm’s Crown

Gobi, the Jewel in Qualcomm’s Crown
by Paul McLellan on 03-01-2014 at 5:19 pm

Back in the 1990s in the middle of the 2G GSM era, cell-phone manufacturers would display a “triangle of difficulty” with a large base labeled radio, a middle smaller part labeled baseband and a little triangle on top labelled software. The idea was that the radio was incredibly difficult, then the baseband chip and… Read More