Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuit (IC) “chips”. Steps involved in semiconductor…
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Feedback is a process whereby some proportion of the output signal of a system is passed (fed back) to the…
A PCB assembled with electronic components is called a printed circuit assembly (PCA), OR printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). A…
Fixing Double-patterning Errors in FinFET(2024) The so-called odd-cycle path is the most typical double patterning error. This occurs when an…
Difference Between CMOS and TTL – Siliconvlsi What are TTL chips? Transistor-transistor logic (TTL) is a digital logic design in which…
Blockages and Halos – VLSI Basics Blockages and Halo: The limits of photolithography, the method used to pattern a circuit…
Design Exchange Format (DEF) – SiliconVLSI VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) design uses the DEF (Design Exchange Format) file format…
Sanity checks before going to start Physical Design step Physical design engineers must perform sanity tests on VLSI designs to…
Clamps are known as static ESD clamps. A diode, MOSFET, and SCR-based clamps are known as static ESD clamps.ESD Clamps…
Addressing Clock Tree Synthesis Challenges In order to equalize the clock delay to all clock inputs, the Clock Tree Synthesis…