Electronic Design

Ring-Oscillator Process Monitors for Wafer-Level CMOS Screening

Ring-oscillator process monitors give production test teams a fast on-die frequency measurement for identifying CMOS process ...
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Nanometer CMOS process variations: are they inevitable, or a symptom or immaturity?

For some time now it has been assumed by a lot of people that the growing process variations at advanced CMOS nodes were an inevitable result of physics, and therefore, like death, taxes and ...
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Foundry offers bipolar CMOS DMOS process for power management market

Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry focused primarily on specialty CMOS process technologies, today announced the availability of 0.5 micron BCD process technology targeted for power ...
Electronic Design

Surface-Micromachined CMOS Process Enhances IC Tire-Pressure Sensor

An innovative design by Motorola's Sensor Products Division in Tempe, Ariz., optimally integrates a surface-micromachined capacitive automotive tire-pressure sensor with a 0.8-µm CMOS double-metal, ...