Free Semiconductor Books on SemiWiki

Download free PDF versions of three pivotal semiconductor books available on SemiWiki.com:

1. Mobile Unleashed: The History of ARM
2. Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry
3. EDAGraffiti: 25 years of experience in EDA

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Free Copy of "Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry

As you may know SemiWiki published a book last year which is a really nice history of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem. Thousands of people have copies, we have received many compliments on it, and we are very proud.
As a thank you to all SemiWiki members I would like to offer a free PDF version of the book. You can access it via the attachment at the bottom of this wiki:
Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry

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For those of you who are "seasoned" semiconductor professionals this book will be a nice walk down memory lane. If you are less seasoned it will be a great read to get you up to speed on how we got to where we are today and where we are going tomorrow, absolutely.

NEW BOOK - Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry

 Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry
 By Daniel Nenni and Paul McLellan
 Foreword By TSMC

 The purpose of this book is to illustrate the magnificence of the fabless semiconductor ecosystem, and to give credit where credit is due by tracing the history of the semiconductor industry from both a technical and business perspective. [Book Preview]

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Lots of Foundries and Fabless Companies do exist - what about standards for their interface?

DATE 2010 ET-P3 PANEL SESSION

Date: Thu, 2010-03-11; Time: 12:45-13:45
Room: Exhibition Theatre, Ground Floor

Organizers: Manfred Dietrich, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS, and Rene Schueffny, TU Dresden

Companies like Broadcom and Nvidia have shown that the Fabless model conquers the semiconductor market. Today all IDM’s use foundries as second source or use it as part of their volume production Because of the high cost of new manufacturing facilities IDM’s become Fablight and concentrate with their production on highly sophisticated processes. How is it possible to handle even more complex circuits if their processes cannot any more be deeply influenced by the internal design team? Today the value chain of the semiconductor market isolates and dominates more and more the vertical companies like EDA, Design house, Fabless, IP provider, Foundry Test & Packaging. Do we have already enough standards or do we need more and where do we need more standards and how can we make it happen? Who will be the driver or who should be the driver? This panel should offer some answers or even create more questions! It is fact - Fabless companies will have more and more impact in the whole IC logic market and Foundries increase their market share every year! Is it time for standards? [more]

Download DATE 2010 Conference Programme (PDF - 3 MB)