A recent trend confusing two quite different terms has had a huge negative impact on the yield, reliability, and manufacturability of DSM (deep-submicron) and subwavelength semiconductor designs. This ...

Obtaining reliable data from electric utilities about magnitude and duration of single-phase, line-to-ground fault currents at the service entrance of commercial and industrial facilities is of ...

As integrated circuit (IC) designs continue to scale, the demand for efficient power management, performance optimization and reliable physical layout modification grows more critical. Meeting these ...

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Today semiconductor industry are more emphasizing on the die size reduction and less metal layers technology process options to improve gross margins but as we are decreasing more and more die size, ...

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...

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