Innovations such as HDTV and digital cinema revolve around video and image processing and the rapid evolution of video technology. Major advances in image capture and display resolutions, advanced ...

Power plants are engineered with precision down to the smallest detail, yet one critical variable is often considered too ...

Video standards and methods of encoding/decoding have made tremendous progress over the last decade with the availability of large system-on-a-chip (SOC) solutions using ASSPs, ASICs, or FPGAs. The ...

Process intensification and design encompass a suite of innovative methodologies aimed at achieving radical improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and economic viability in chemical processing ...

Once upon a time, integrated circuits (ICs) were built by the same companies that designed them. The design of an IC was tightly integrated with the manufacturing processes available within each ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 20, 2004 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced the new version 6.3i of the Platform Studio for system-level embedded processing design on Xilinx Platform FPGAs.

Process design kits consist of a set of files that typically contain descriptions of the basic building blocks of the process. They are expressed, algorithmically, as Pcells. These descriptions are ...

Designers rely on the accuracy of Process Design Kits (PDK¡¦s) for their IC designs. This paper describes independent verification of the PDK accuracy using a low-cost Die Level Process Monitor (DLPM) ...

"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," Dorothy says to her dog in 1939's 'The Wizard of Oz' as she walks around, discovering a fantasy set in which, without realizing it, we find ourselves ...