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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

EDA Is Stepping Up to Meet New DFM Demands

"Smaller, faster, and cheaper” has been the mantra of the semiconductor industry for over 40 years. But the latest 45- and 32-nm technology nodes have many in the semiconductor industry crying “uncle.” Efforts to deliver technology on the timeline demanded by Moore’s Law have collided head-on with the economic realities of semiconductor manufacturing. It’s just too costly. Students of “techonomics” (the interdependency of technology and economics) have one heck of a case study on their hands.

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