In advanced packaging, warpage is rarely a modeling problem. It is a timing problem.
JOHN BRUGGEMAN
By the time many advanced packages undergo high-fidelity thermo-mechanical analysis, a long chain of decisions has already been made. Stackup. Materials. Die placement. Package architecture. Each decision constrains the … Read More
In 1960, the Nobel-winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner published an article titled “The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”. His point was that, at least in the physical and chemical worlds, mathematics is able to describe the behavior of nature to an uncannily accurate degree, which… Read More
Ever since the announcement in early July from CERN that they likely have, probably, finally found the Higgs boson, I’ve been thinking about what quantum mechanics means to our daily ‘classical model’ existence. On the surface, nothing. The most fantastical aspects of quantum mechanics, like uncertainty, tunneling and the … Read More
