CRN

IBM-AMD, Intel Describe 65-nm Transistors

Intel is in production with several 65-nm processors now, creating an inventory of commercial microprocessor products that will begin shipping early next year. At the IEDM conference, Intel showed die ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Mobility Gets A Boost With Expanded Epi Applications

Even as industry moves into the era of the high k metal gate (HKMG) and FinFET transistor, chipmakers continue to seek ways to improve device performance. One of the latest advances and the subject of ...
Electronic Design

Use Hybrid PMOS-NMOS Active Loads To Cut Substrate Noise In Differential Amplifiers

PMOS transistors are less vulnerable to substrate noise since they’re placed in separate wells; designers implement guard rings to attenuate the substrate noise propagation. However, substrate noise ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Speeding Up NMOS

For years—decades, in fact—the NMOS transistor world has been on cruise control. NMOS is naturally faster and its performance has scaled better than PMOS. PMOS has had a cost advantage. But lately, it ...
EDN

NBTI’s impact on timing

As process technologies continue to shrink, performance degradation due to aging is increasing. With time, cells become slower, which results in timing failures. NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Design Using MOS Transistors

Analog circuit design using MOS transistors represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that is integral to modern electronics. Exploiting the inherent advantages of MOS technology—such as ...
EDN

IBM-AMD, Intel describe 65-nm transistors

Washington, D.C. &#151 Intel Corp. faced off against the alliance of Advanced Micro Devices and IBM on the stage of the International Electron Devices Meeting here Tuesday (Dec. 6th), presenting 65-nm ...