EDN

NBTI’s impact on timing

As process technologies continue to shrink, performance degradation due to aging is increasing. With time, cells become slower, which results in timing failures. NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
Semiconductor Engineering

TCAD Simulation Challenges For Gate-All-Around Transistors

The transition from finFET technology to Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology helps to reduce transistor variability and resume channel length scaling. It also brings several new challenges in terms of ...
CRN

IBM-AMD, Intel Describe 65-nm Transistors

Intel is in production with several 65-nm processors now, creating an inventory of commercial microprocessor products that will begin shipping early next year. At the IEDM conference, Intel showed die ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Design Using MOS Transistors

Analog circuit design using MOS transistors represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that is integral to modern electronics. Exploiting the inherent advantages of MOS technology—such as ...
Nature

Carbon-nanotube computer scaled up

For many decades, progress in electronics has been driven by a gradual reduction in the size of silicon transistors (electronic switches). However, this scaling is becoming increasingly difficult and ...