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November 24, 2020Meet Silvaco

Worldwide Success for Virtual Silvaco UseRs Global Events (SURGE)

The fourth annual SURGE moved online, from late October into early November 2020. Chip design and manufacturing companies gave the talks, with industry partners alongside.

November 18, 2020Analog and Custom IC · Meet Silvaco

Silvaco Presents at 13th International MOS-AK Virtual Workshop, Dec. 10 – 11

Silvaco R&D presents at the 13th MOS-AK Workshop, online on December 10–11, 2020. It's where compact model developers meet the designers who use their models.

October 28, 2020Analog and Custom IC

Customer Interview: Why I Rely on SmartSpice

Martin Mallinson's audio designs ship in millions of smartphones. He tells Graham Bell why he relies on SmartSpice for speed and precision.

October 28, 2020Meet Silvaco

Silvaco’s Babak Taheri Speaking @ MEMS World Summit Shanghai, Nov. 17

Babak Taheri's November 17, 2020 talk in Shanghai, on where semiconductor megatrends meet the post-COVID economy.

September 2, 2020TCAD

Silvaco at Upcoming Solid-State Conferences – ESSDERC 2020 and SISPAD 2020

An ab-initio simulation tutorial at ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2020, co-chaired by Silvaco's Philippe Blaise, with a talk from Purdue's Dr. Tillmann Kubis on atomistic Green's functions.

July 20, 2020Meet Silvaco

CEO Perspective – Challenges and Opportunities for Global Semiconductor Businesses

By Babak Taheri, Silvaco CEO

What a time of real danger, and real possibility, asks of the people who run global semiconductor businesses.

July 6, 2020Meet Silvaco

Replay of 2020 ESD Alliance CEO Outlook Panel

Six industry CEOs, hosted virtually by Arm on June 17, 2020. COVID-19 was on the agenda, and so was the climbing price of designing a chip.

March 30, 2020TCAD

Accelerating Design with the Victory TCAD Suite

From the Simulation Standard's 30th year: a full power device design flow, run through Victory Process, Victory Mesh and Victory Device.

March 2, 2020TCAD

TCAD Simulations of RF-SOI Switches with Trap-Rich Substrate

Cellular antenna switches are moving off GaAs pHEMT and silicon-on-sapphire onto CMOS-SOI. This post simulates those switches on trap-rich substrates.

January 24, 2020Design IP

New MIPI I3C V1.1 Standard Streamlines Peripheral Connectivity with Lower Cost and Higher Bandwidth

Every smartphone carries at least one MIPI specification. Version 1.1 of I3C gives sensor and peripheral links lower cost and more bandwidth.

January 7, 2020TCAD

Simulating nanowires: atomistic TCAD through to SPICE

As nodes shrink, TCAD turns atomistic and SPICE models become process-aware. Parasitic extraction follows, moving from 2D rules to 3D field solvers.