D&R Industry Articles (August 2021)

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eNVM towards 40nm and beyond

As the semiconductor industry is prominently marching into the nanometer era, fundamental elements face their physical limits significantly, such as electric field across gate dielectric layers, leakage from an ultra-short channel or steep doping profile, newly incorporated leakage/current models, etc.

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EDA in the Cloud Will be Key to Rapid Innovative SoC Design

In the electronic design automation (EDA) space, until recently, traditional concerns about security, protecting intellectual property (IP) and data outweighed the significant advantages offered by computing in the cloud — such as flexibility, scalability and productivity.

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FPGAs - The Logical Solution to the Microcontroller Shortage

Today’s marketplace is getting heavily disrupted by the current semiconductor chip shortage that has hampered our manufacturing production lines. This is evident by the limited supply of products available.

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The Elements of Traceability

Europe is an interesting place to observe complex systems’ development activity. It may not have hyperscalers or smartphone leaders, but on the world stage, it has one of the two dominant commercial aircraft manufacturers, an active space agency, several premium car brands and leading Tier 1s with supporting automotive semiconductor companies.