Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification, today announced the immediate availability of Analog Characterization Environment (ACE™)—a high-productivity system to ensure nanometer-scale analog and mixed-signal circuits meet rigorous design performance requirements.
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A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena, like clouds, contribute to that imbalance.
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Axcelis Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of enabling ion implantation solutions for the semiconductor industry, announced today that it has received a multiple system upgrade order from a leading semiconductor manufacturer based in Asia for Axcelis' new GSD Series High Performance End Station upgrade, designed to significantly enhance system productivity and process performance.
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LAST POWER1, the European Union-sponsored program aimed at developing a cost-effective and reliable technology for power electronics, today announced its three-year program achievements that place Europe at the forefront of research and the commercialization of energy-efficient devices for industrial and automotive applications, consumer electronics, renewable-energy conversion systems, and telecommunications.
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ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. announced today that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC") has deployed ProPlus' NanoYield™ High-Sigma (HS) within its advanced technology development flow.
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H2W's dual headed voice coil positioning Stage (VCS15-050-LB-01-MC-2) is a high precision two axis positioning system for high end motion control applications.
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Anasys Instruments reports on the announcement from the University of Illinois which describes the effect of nanometer-scale heating on semiconductor plasmonic microparticles which reveal surface plasmon resonance. Th...
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Synopsys, Inc., a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that Achronix Semiconductor has successfully used both Synopsys' IC Compiler™ physical design and IC Validator physical verification solutions to sign off its Speedster22i® FPGA – the industry's first system-on-chip (SoC) design using FinFET transistors.
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Silex Microsystems, the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry, today announced that it has joined an international European Union-funded program aimed at developing a new MEMS manufacturing platform based on advanced inkjet-based printing technologies.
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Miniature electronics continue to add circuit functions and increased circuit speed while reducing size and increasing portability.
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