Design-Reuse

FinFET Technology and Layout

FinFETs form the foundation for many of today’s semiconductor fabrication techniques but also create significant design concerns that affect your layout. Understanding the changes and design ...
Design-Reuse

Circuit Design in FinFET Technologies: Evolution or Revolution?

All of the major foundries have announced FinFET technologies for their most advanced processes. Intel introduced this transistor at the 22 nm node, TSMC for their 16 nm process, and Samsung and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Automatic Layout Generator Targeting Region-based Layouts for Advanced FinFET-Based Full-Custom Circuits (UT Austin/NVIDIA)

A technical paper titled “AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies” was published by researchers at UT Austin and NVIDIA. “This paper presents AutoCRAFT, an ...
CIOL

Mentor Graphics design and verification tools certified for TSMC 16nm FinFET production

WILSONVILLE, USA: Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that its IC design to silicon solution has achieved certification for TSMC's Design Rule Manual (DRM) and SPICE model version 1.0 for its 16nm FinFET ...