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 ...
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 ...