Chip design gets 3D parasitic extractorRichard Ball Sequence Design has introduced a 3D parasitic extractor aimed at mixed signal, analogue and digital chip designs. Called Columbus-AMS, the tool is capable of extracting data on resistance, capacitance and inductance, the last being “critical for analogue circuits as well high-speed digital circuits”, said Dr Susheel Chandra, the firm’s v-p of R&D and ...

3D chips are challenge for industryDavid MannersThe chip industry is facing more technical challenges than at any time in its history, according to the 2003 McLean Report from IC Insights.Apart from the innovations in silicon germanium, low-k insulators, high-k gate oxides, strained silicon and double-gate transistors, the industry has to find ways to increase functionality without increasing die size through ...

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The Mathworks found guilty of patent infringementEd Sperling The Mathworks has been found guilty by a US District Court jury of stealing intellectual property developed by National Instruments. The two-week trial focused on four different patents filed by National Instruments in 1990, all of which are used in its LabView graphical programming product. The jury found that all four patents ...

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Global chip firms support European electronics awardsRichard WilsonCadence Design Systems, Texas Instruments and Agere Systems have added their names to the list companies supporting the 2003 European Electronics Industry Awards.Texas Instruments is sponsoring the product of the year award, Cadence is sponsoring the start-up of the year award and Agere is sponsoring the award for project team of the year. ...

Brunel gets industry support for mobiles degreeHarry YeatesBrunel University has partnered with a number of high-profile telecoms technology companies to provide support for its Mobile Phone Technology and Computing degree course.The companies, which include BT Brightstar, Research In Motion, TTP Com and US start-up Digit Wireless, will provide guest lectures and laboratory hardware for the BSc course, which is run ...

SiGe firm sees big demand for 802.11 WLANsRichard WilsonThe wireless LAN market is set to double this year, according to Jim Derbyshire, president and CEO of SiGe Semiconductor.“The 802.11 wireless LAN market is growing like mad right now, it has more potential than Bluetooth,” said Derbyshire.It is emerging as the most important market for the silicon germanium (SiGe) semiconductor supplier. ...