Imec presents dual-damascene approach to 3nm BEOL processing

Imec has presented a dual-damascene 21nm pitch test vehicle relevant for manufacturing the 3nm logic technology node. With this test vehicle, a 30% improvement in resistance-capacitance product (RC) was obtained compared to previous generations, without impacting reliability. The need for implementing scaling boosters such as self-aligned vias and self-aligned blocks in 3nm and beyond interconnect ...

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Arrow Electronics introduces first reference kit for Intel Cyclone 10 LP

The kit, which is the first available for this device family, includes a 55kLE Cyclone 10 LP FPGA and a selection of common interfaces and peripherals. It can address applications in the industrial, automotive, vision, test and measurement, and consumer sectors. Arrow developed the kit with Trenz Electronic. The FPGA and all peripherals are powered ...

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black/white/yellow e-paper displays grow to 12.2″

Pervasive Displays of Taiwan has extended its range of tri-colour 9 balck, white, yellow – e-paper displays to include 7.4 and 12.2 inch types – 1.54 to 4.37 inch versions were introduced in May. The 12.2in tri-colour e-paper display – the yellow you see in the image might not match the product’s yellow. “E-paper displays are ...

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Professor Robert Richardson elected chair of ESPRC UK-RAS Network

Richardson’s appointment was announced to network members during UK Robotics Week, held at the end of June. Outgoing chair professor Guang-Zhong Yang will remain with the organisation as chair of the UK-RAS Network strategic advisory board, providing guidance and direction on policy. Professor Richardson said “My focus as incoming executive chair of the UK-RAS Network ...

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US initiates 301 probe on French tech tax

The US is initiating a 301 investigation into French plans to tax the digital tech giants. A 301 investigation preceded the tariff war against China. The French Senate agreed earlier today to a 3% tax on tech companies – a so-called Digital Services Tax or DST. “The United States is very concerned that the digital ...

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UK proposes mapping standards for self-driving cars, and calls for comments

A UK report has proposed global standards for the high-definition mapping necessary for “the safe deployment of self-driving vehicles”, according to Ordnance Survey, which worked with Zenzic, the UK Government-initiated hub organisation for self-driving vehicle development, to prepare the report – and call for comments (see below). According to the report, self-driving vehicles will require maps ...

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TULIPP blossoms

The TULIPP (Towards Ubiquitous Low-power Image Processing Platforms) Consortium has announced the conclusion of the EU’s three-year project. Beginning in January 2016, the Tulipp project targeted the improved development of high performance, energy efficient systems for the growing range of complex, vision-based image processing applications. The Tulipp project was funded with nearly €4 million from Horizon ...

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Bremen team win RoboCup World Championship

B-Human of Bremen won the 2019 RoboCup World Championship in Sydney. This year’s RoboCup winners, B-Human, were a joint team from of the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) became world champion. In an exciting final B-Human won against the reigning world champion HTWK from Leipzig. The team from ...

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PDK for integrated SiPho and SiGe ICs

TowerJazz, Cadence and Lumerical are offering  a complete custom design Silicon Photonics (SiPho) and Silicon Germanium (SiGe) integrated PDK. The PDK is based on the Cadence Virtuoso custom IC design platform, providing native synthesis using the Cadence CurvyCore engine and Electrical-Optical co-simulation capability in Lumerical’s photonic integrated circuit simulator INTERCONNECT. The complete, photonics-optimized solution provides SiPho ...

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