Sep 10, 2010

IDESA Training Courses Calendar

Implementation of widespread IC DEsign Skills in advanced deep submicron technologies at European Academia.

Advanced Analog Implementation flowAnalog circuit design simulation and layout for 90nm and below.

Advanced Digital Physical Implementation flowPower Aware physical design techniques, timing and power closure.

Advanced RF Implementation flowRF Implementation Flow in deep sub-micron CMOS technology.

Design for Manufacturing flowDFM issues are becoming increasingly important for 90nm and below.
The IDESA Course Booking System is managed and maintained by STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. If you have a booking enquiry, please email: idesa@stfc.ac.uk

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IDESA Course Calendar 2010
Advanced Analog Implementation flow RAL
Advanced Digital Physical Implementation flow AGH
LUND
Advanced RF Implementation flow
IMEC
PPAZ
Design for Manufacturing flow ERLN
IDESA Course Calendar 2011
Advanced Digital Physical Implementation flow ERLN
Design for Manufacturing flow TUL MONS

Course Location key:
AGH AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland CIME CIME, France
ERLN Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany IMEC Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, Belgium
LUND University of Lund, Sweden MONS Université de Mons, Belgium
MONT University Montpellier 2, France NAP Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
PPAZ Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Hungary RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
STU Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia TUL Technical University of Lodz, Poland


Sep 8, 2010

Where to study nanotech?

Marie Curie Fellows - Centro de Química da Madeira, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal.

Accelicon announces Context Dependent Modeling Platform

I copy a part of the original post:

Accelicon Technologies, Inc. announces the market’s first commercially available Context Dependent Modeling Platform based on Accelicon’s flagship device modeling solution MBP. The performance of FETs can vary significantly, at advanced process nodes, due to layout dependent proximity effects. Sources of LDEs include Well Proximity Effect (WPE), lithography distortions, un-intentional stress sources such as Shallow Trench Isolation (LOD Effect) and intentional stressors which are used to enhance the performance of the device. These enhancement techniques include dual-stress liners, embedded SiGe and stress memorization techniques. At advanced process nodes engineers must analyze LDEs to minimize undesirable proximity effects and lithography distortions, and effectively utilize stress enhancement techniques. This analysis can only be conducted after layout extraction, SPICE modeling alone is not sufficient. 

Read more at the original post in LinkedIn:

Accelicon announces Context Dependent Modeling Platform

Simulating the Memristor with spice (as of September 2010)

Here you have a list of papers where people model a memristor:


- H.H. Li and M. Hu, "Compact Model of Memristors and Its Application in Computing Systems," DATE, 2010.

- Á. Rak and G. Cserey, "Macromodeling of the Memristor in SPICE," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 29, 2010, pp. 632-636.

- D. Batas and H. Fiedler, "A Memristor Spice Implementation and a New Approach for Magnetic Flux Controlled Memristor Modeling," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2010, pp. 1-1.

- "Modeling the HP memristor with SPICE," http://www.neurdon.com/2010/07/23/modeling-the-hp-memristor-with-spice/, 2010.

- Valsa, J., Biolek, D. and Biolek, Z. , "An analogue model of the memristor". International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, n/a. doi: 10.1002/jnm.786

Lot of work, isn't it?

Sep 6, 2010

www.SoCconference.com

8th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

Date: Nov. 3-4, 2010
Venue: Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport
Agenda & Schedule

Early Bird Registration Is Now Open!

Three distinguished keynote speakers:

1. Dr. Ivo Bolsens, Senior Vice President and CCEO, Xilinx Inc.
2. Dr. J. Antonio Carballo, WW Manager, IBM Microelectronics Services, Semiconductor Partner, IBM VC Group, IBM.
3. Raouf Y. Halim, CEO, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

Sep 5, 2010

New record set for ferroelectric data storage


Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Microscope: inset left: Shows topography and electric dipole-moment; inset right: Example of a ferroelectric information storage; [Read more...]

Aug 31, 2010

HP and Hynix - Bringing the memristor to market in next-generation memory

Today, HP announced a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor Inc., to develop a new kind of computer memory – one that will employ memristor technology pioneered by researchers at HP Labs.