Renesas has prototyped its split gate MONOS (SG-MONOS) charge trap flash technology which uses 3D fin-shaped transistors and is intending to use the trchnology in to put 100MB memories onto MCUs made on a 16/14nm process. In 2016, Renesas announced the successful development of fin-type SG-MONOS flash memory cell by applying and adopting charge trap type flash ...
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October semiconductor sales of $37.1 billion were up 3.2% on September’s $36 billion and up 21.9% on the $30.4 billion of October 2016, reports the SIA. The WSTS forecast is now 20.6% for this year and 7% for 2018. “The global semiconductor market continued to grow impressively in October, with sales surpassing the industry’s highest-ever ...
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Synapse Design, the Santa Clara SoC design house, has bought ACEIC Design Technologies of Bangalore in its third acquistion this year. ACEIC has been primarily focused on verification services. Through this acquisition, Synapse Design gains experienced verification engineers with domain expertise across Automotive, Wireless, Bluetooth and DDR and VIP for the latest version Bluetooth 5.0. ...
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Imec reports ultralow contact resistivity of 5×10-10Ωcm2 on Gallium (Ga)-doped p-Germanium (Ge) source/drain contacts. The low contact resistivity and high level of Ga activation were achieved after nanosecond laser activation (NLA) at low thermal budget. The results show that highly Ga-doped Ge-rich source/drain contacts provide a promising route for suppressing parasitic source/drain resistance in advanced ...
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), the University of Seoul and Drexel University in the US, have found a way to produce stable laser pulses only 600 femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) long. The researchers tested a MXene made of titanium carbonitride to fabricate a ‘mode-locking’ device. The apparatus was placed in ...
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ST has launched a miniature 2-axis MEMS gyroscope in its Optical Image Stabilization device family measuring 2mm x 2mm x 0.7mm with a suppression ratio of 6dB. The L20G20IS maintains its accuracy even when soldered on the latest ultra-thin substrates, which are typically only 0.2mm or 0.3mm thick and increasingly used by handset designers to create ...
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The causes of energy-wasting ‘three-electron scattering’ have been quantified in silicon carbide devices, as far as Mitsubishi and the University of Tokyo can tell. Factors limiting resistance under SiC interface “Although it has been recognised that electron scatting under the SiC interface is limited by three factors, namely, the roughness of the SiC interface, the ...
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Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of probe heads for wafer-level chip-scale package testing. The probe heads in the Volta series are used for testing the chips while in their wafer form. In the design spring probe contacts are used in place of cantilever and traditional vertical probe card technologies. The am is to create ...
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Recom has developed a range of 10W AC/DC converters in an industry standard 2 x 1-inch package. The converters have an input voltage range from 85 to 305VAC. They are designed as AC/DC supplies for IoT systems in which the sensor nodes operate at least part of the time in a standby state. The 10W ...
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Plexus has expanded its European design centre for healthcare, industrial, aerospace, defence and communications sectors. The Oradea Design Centre was opened in Romania in 2013. Plexus said that in the last fiscal year revenues from the EMEA region served by the centre grew by 13% while Oradea manufacturing revenue grew 30%. This new investment in ...
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