Electronic Design

CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation: Second Edition

As author R. Jacob “Jake” Baker points out in the preface to this comprehensive volume, CMOS technology has dominated the fabrication of ICs for 25 years, and is likely to dominate it for another 25 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Combining CMOS IC And MEMS Design For IoT Edge Devices

Creating a sensor-based IoT edge device is challenging, due to the multiple design domains involved. But, creating an edge device that combines the electronics using the traditional CMOS IC flow and a ...
EDN

IC Performance: Challenges in Layout with CMOS Technology Nodes

Editor’s note: I am pleased to bring you an important technical blog by Fernando Lavalle, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University and his colleague, Suraj Prakash, who have been working and studying ...
Electronics Weekly

Brush up on your IC design skills

Ireland-based IC Mask Design is offering a range of training courses on IC layout aimed at all levels of expertise which focus on the development of physical design skills. The ‘Master-IC’ courses, ...
Electronic Design

How to Design a Chip for Under $1,000 (Part 1): Book Recommendations

In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks. TinyTapeout offers a course that ...
EDN

Digital camera design, part 3: CMOS rolling shutter and global reset schemes

The three-transistor design or 3T Pixel is the simplest CMOS pixel architecture (Figure 1). One transistor is used to reset or precharge the photodiode while two more are used for video readout: one ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Field-Coupled Nanocomputing: Scalable And Efficient Post-Layout Optimization (TU Munich)

A new technical paper titled “Efficient and Scalable Post-Layout Optimization for Field-coupled Nanotechnologies” was published by researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). “As ...