MONTEREY — Hoping to lower the soaring costs of photomasks in chip production, a group of EDA, IC and chip-equipment vendors today unveiled a new data interchange format that replaces the venerable ...

Chipmaking equipment body Semi has unveiled a replacement for GDS-II, the format used to send physical data to fabs, foundries and mask makers. GDS-II has been around for some 30 years, and in that ...

Computer Weekly\'s editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy. Back in February, when the UK government’s consultation on the use of open document formats ...

Driven by Moore’s Law and modern, ubiquitous computation power demand, the market will continue to demand higher chip performance. Therefore, modern chips with ever-higher power densities present ...

The relationship between a place and route (P&R) application and the collection of system-on-chip (SoC) design implementation, analysis, and verification methodologies and tools has always been very ...