SE: Especially with advanced nodes, there are many types of variation in the process and today’s design and verification tools have to understand this. How does variation impact the sphere of your ...

Variation between different manufacturing equipment is becoming increasingly troublesome as chipmakers push to 10/7nm and beyond. Process variation is a well-known phenomenon at advanced nodes. But ...

A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...

As technology nodes shrink to 90 nanometers and below, chips become much more difficult to manufacture. In-die process variations increase substantially at 90 nm — even more at 65 nm. If these effects ...

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 ...