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FutureTech: Your semiconductor chips made in Space-shuttle, Moon or Mars
Is space a final frontier for semiconductor chip fabrication? Well, the answer looks to be not so confirmed "yes", but some trends are pointing in that direction. Space is different from earth's atmosphere, where you don't need to create vacuum and the near-zero gravity. Space provides some advantag
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Semiconductor centric Digital India FutureLABS launched by MeitY
MeitY in co-ordination with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) launched Digital India FutureLABS at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in New Delhi in presence of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology. Government officia
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IISc in collaboration with Synopsys launched a semiconductor learning program
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in partnership with leading chip-design EDA software leader Synopsys launched a program called India Semiconductor Workforce Development Program (ISWDP). ISWDP is tailored to bridge the process technology and device design skill gap in the swiftly expanding semicon
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Graphene comes back: Researchers make a first functional semiconductor chip
Silicon is such a wonder material, it has pushed back all the other semiconductor materials due to the extraordinary economic, environmental, manufacturable, and various other values it offers over other semiconductor materials. Silicon is simply ruling the world now in terms of the proliferation o
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Demystifying the semiconductor fabrication: Free online course from Purdue Univ
You not only find electronics and semiconductors inside so called electronics systems such as phones and computers and home entertainments systems but nearly in every electric powered devices and systems. Electronics is getting into every engineering system including medical equipments and farming t
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Synopsys and IIT-B partnered in setting up semiconductor lab for virtual fab
Semiconductor chip design EDA sofware leader Synopsys partnered with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in setting up semiconductor lab for virtual Fab as part of the Department of Electrical Engineering under the Center for Semiconductor Technologies (SemiX) to aid in developing talent for sem
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Samsung Semiconductor India helping IISc in setting up quantum tech lab
Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) is partnering with Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in setting up an advanced quantum technology research lab. SSIR is working on the goal of providing research and training support opportunities to large number of faculty members and students in premier
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Doulos expands its embedded portfolio by acquiring 2net training courses
Doulos announces that it has acquired the 2net training portfolio, which will now be provided solely by Doulos to clients across the globe. This strategic decision has enabled the company to expand its existing range of Embedded Software courses by incorporating Embedded Android and additional Linux
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Holistic approach in designing reliable electronics board by considering thermal/heat management
Designing an electronic system for simple prototyping is different from designing electronic system of production grade. A production grade electronic system design needs lot more effort in terms of making the system reliable, rugged and withstand harsh weather conditions and meet some safety stand
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India needs leader engineers not followers, Semiconductor expert turned faculty at IISc shares his views
Engineering education is a strategic foundation for the future of nation and so is also the electronics engineering education. The emerging market trends such as smart villages/cities, smart factory, e-farming and smart-everything need lot more technology innovation in electronics engineering. Not o
20 min readNoida based VLSI IP company conducts world-class EDA event TrueConnect in Bangalore
Bangalore is a key global hub of VLSI design activity with most of the leading EDA companies and top semiconductor chip design vendors having big development offices with hundreds and thousands of VLSI engineers at each office developing cutting-edge chips. When it comes to high-end chip design ev
3 min readWebinar on Victory Process 2D, a semiconductor chip process simulator
Dr. Misha Temkin, a Senior Applications Engineer at semiconductor EDA software vendor Silvaco's TCAD Division in Santa Clara, California is presenting a online-seminar (webinar) on "Victory Process simulator" This webinar will show how to use the two-dimensional version of Victory Process (VP2D) ei
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