A newly drafted IEEE standard will bring more consistency to defect metrics in analog/mixed (AMS) designs, a long-overdue step that has become too difficult to ignore in the costly heterogeneous ...
Intel this week revealed defect density metrics for its 18A (1.8nm-class) process technology and said that it was healthy at the Deutsche Bank's 2024 Technology Conference. The company also said that ...
(Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles that will define what is predicted yield improvement and how it can be measured or validated using test data) Design for Yield (DFY) tools are ...