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3D Thursday: Produce cost-effective 2.5D and 3D devices. Attend the Known Good Die conference, November 15
Robert Patti, Chief Technical Officer and VP of Design Engineering at Tezzaron Semiconductor is the just-announced speaker at the Known Good Die conference being held on November 15 in Santa Clara, CA. His topic: Using Repair & Redundancy with KGD … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, Supply chain, Tezzaron Semiconductor, Through-silicon via
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3D Thursday: Save the date. 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference on December 12-14
The 9th International 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference and Exhibition will be held December 12 -14, 2012 at the Sofitel in Redwood City, CA. It’s run by RTI International. More info here.
3D Thursday: Will water cooling for 3D IC assemblies ever be practical?
Last week, Brian Bailey published an interview with Professor Madhavan Swaminathan who is the Director of the Interconnect and Packaging Center (IPC) at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The topic of the interview was cooling of 3D IC devices. It’s no … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, EDA360, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization, System Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Aquasar, Brian Bailey, FLOPS, IBM, Integrated circuit, SuperMUC, Water cooling
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3D Thursday: Magnificent Max explains 3D IC in simple terms
If you’re looking for simplified explanations of technical topics, few people write them as well as Clive “Max” Maxfield. His simplified 3-page explanation of 3D IC assembly is here. (Note: Registration needed to go past page 1, unfortunately.)
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3D Thursday: Want some real-world insight into 2.5D and 3D IC design and assembly? Read on to get the word from Tezzaron Semiconductor
Ann Steffora-Mutschler just published an interview with Robert Patti, chief technology officer at Tezzaron Semiconductor, that gives some terrific technical detail about 2.5D and 3D IC design and assembly. Patti provides some rare insight into today’s (as in right now) … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Tezzaron
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Can 2.5D IC assembly really reduce SoC software-development costs? Gabe Moretti thinks it can
Last week on the EDA Café Web site, EDA Editor and Industry Observer Gabe Moretti discussed my DAC blog post on Wally Rhines’ discussion of software’s role in the rising cost of SoC development. (See “Some chip-design reality from Mentor’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 28Gbps, Altera, FPGA, software, Virtex 7, Xilinx
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Friday Video: Mr. 3D IC, Herb Reiter, speaks about his start with 3D, where it is, where it’s going
I conducted this video interview with Herb Reiter, “Mr. 3D IC” and president of eda2asic, the day after he spoke at a MEPTEC lunch in Silicon Valley—see “3D Thursday: The “King of 3D ICs” (Herb Reiter) speaks to his subjects—‘Learn … Continue reading
3D Thursday: The “King of 3D ICs” (Herb Reiter) speaks to his subjects—“Learn to work together”
Mr. 3D IC—aka Herb Reiter—spoke to an attentive group of packaging experts about the state of 3D IC technical and business development today at a MEPTEC luncheon held at the “luxurious” Biltmore Hotel in cental Silicon Valley. I’ve written about … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, DAC, EDA360, Low Power, Packaging, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization, System Realization, Wide I/O
Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Herb Reiter, IBM, Reiter, Three-dimensional integrated circuit, TSMC, Xilinx
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3D Thursday: Want to see a closeup of the TSMC 3D IC test vehicle?
Richard Goering just published a detailed blog post about the TSMC 2.5D/3D IC test vehicle, which TSMC is calling CoWoS (Chip on Wafer on Substrate) in his Industry Insights blog. This approach to 3D IC assembly bonds active silicon die … Continue reading
Friday Video + 3D Thursday: Xilinx Virtex-7 H580T uses 3D assembly to merge 28Gbps xceivers, FPGA fabric
The first 3D part in the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA family—the 2000T—permitted the construction of a huge FPGA while sidestepping the yield issues of large 28nm die. Now, Xilinx has used 3D IC assembly to meld two FPGA logic slices and … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 28nm, 3D, EDA360, FPGA, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization, System Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 28Gbps, 3D, H580T, Xilinx
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Moore’s Law: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Moore’s Law is not dead but the vital signs have clearly changed. That was the key message I heard from Dr. Subramanian Iyer, Fellow and Chief Technologist at the IBM Systems & Technology Group, during the GSA Silicon Summit held … Continue reading
3D Thursday: Electronics Component and Technologies Conference in San Diego features several 3D learning opportunities. May 29-June 1.
The Electronics Component and Technologies Conference being held in San Diego on May 29-June 1 will provide you with several significant opportunities to come up to speed on 3D IC assembly and related topics including: Session 1 on 3D Interconnect … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, packaging, San Diego
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3D Thursday: 3D IC success stories—a DAC panel. June 7
What better way to understand the realities of 3D IC assembly than to listen to the pioneers who have already taken the arrows so you won’t have to? That’s the topic of the upcoming DAC panel: “Is 3-D Ready for … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, EDA360, Silicon Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Cadence, IBM, Intel, Three-dimensional integrated circuit, TSMC, Xilinx
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3D Thursday: Practical Approaches to 3-D IC—TSV/Silicon Interposer and Wide IO Implementation From People Who Have Been There, Done That
If you’re like me, you’ve heard more than enough theory about 3D IC assembly and you’re ready to get on with the main event and design something. Want to hear about 3D IC technology that works? Now? Then you will … Continue reading
3D Thursday: A funny thing happened to me on the EDPS 3D-IC panel
Last Friday, I moderated an all-star, hand-picked 3D-IC panel at the Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS) in Monterey, California. The panel included: Phil Marcoux, Managing Director, PPM Associates, experienced packaging expert Herb Reiter, President of eda2asic, Chair of the Global … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Cadence, TSV
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Want a peek at a possible Qualcomm 3D IC roadmap?
“3D IC test wafers will run this year and high-volume 3D IC manufacturing will start in 2013,” concluded Riko Radojcic at the end of his EDPS keynote on 3D ICs held in Monterey, California last Friday. Radojcic is Qualcomm’s Director … Continue reading
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3D preview from EDPS: Qualcomm’s Director of Engineering Riko Radojcic talks 3D and 3D EDA
Last week’s Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS) opened a rich new vein of 3D IC material and you’ll see a lot nuggets from me on that topic in the next few days. Meanwhile, Richard Goering has already published a post … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, EDA360, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization, System Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 3D IC, EDA, Qualcomm
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3D Thursday: TSMC talks more about Moore, More than Moore, and 3D ICs at CDNLive!
Rick Cassidy, president of TSMC North America, gave a keynote speech at CDNLive! Silicon Valley this week and discussed 3D IC assembly in the context of Moore’s Law. “I think we can actually beat Moore,” he said after discussing planar … Continue reading
Posted in 10nm, 14nm, 2.5D, 3D, CDNLive!, EDA360, Packaging, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 3D, Cadence, Moore's law, TSMC
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EDPS 3D Friday (April 6) expands with new speakers including 3D IC assembly and packaging advocate Phil Marcoux
I’ve written previously about the all-3D IC design, assembly, and packaging program that will take place during the second day of the EDPS (Electronic Design Process Symposium) workshop in Monterey. This blog post is to let you know that additional … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, EDPS
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3D Thursday: Boosting the bandwidth of Wide I/O SDRAM to 1 Tbit/sec through standards evolution
This week’s DesignCon included a panel on 3D standards. You can read a review of the panel here in EETimes. Many topics were discussed, but the nugget I want to focus on in this blog post is the issue of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, JEDEC, SDRAM, Wide I/O
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3D Thursday: SEMATECH wades in to develop assessment criteria for 3D manufacturing equipment and processes
Earlier this week, SEMATECH—the global semiconductor industry’s research consortium—announced that it plans to conduct “Equipment Maturity Assessments (EMAs) of several critical 3D tools during 2012 to establish functional equipment capabilities and address high-volume manufacturing maturity issues” through its wholly owned … Continue reading
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3D Thursday: Let’s end 2011 with a high-performance DRAM memory stack design. How would you improve it?
For the last 3D Thursday blog post of 2011in the EDA360 Insider, I thought I’d take a flight of fancy and try to put as many of this year’s 3D IC concepts as possible together to see what we might … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, EDA360, Memory, SoC, SoC Realization, System Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 3D, HMC, IBM, JEDEC, Micron, Wide I/O
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3D Week: The three interconnect crises of the electronics industry and the inevitability of 3D. Believable?
Many people in the electronics industry view 3D IC assembly as not being in the mainstream. That’s easy to understand. It’s not at the moment. Yet I do believe in the inevitability of 3D assembly. Here’s why. At last week’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, IC, packaging
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3D Thursday: Is 2.5D IC assembly “buzz-worthy”?
I’ve written several times about the Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T FPGA that uses 2.5D IC assembly techniques to form four FPGA die into one FPGA package with two million logic cells. (See “3D Thursday: Generation-jumping 2.5D Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T FPGA delivers … Continue reading
Posted in 2.5D, 3D, Silicon Realization, SoC, SoC Realization
Tagged 2.5D, 2000T, 3D, Virtex 7, Xilinx
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3D Thursday: Who is responsible for successful 2.5D and 3D assembly? eSilicon is perhaps saying “Us”
Two weeks ago, I moderated a 3D IC panel at the 9th International SoC Conference in Newport Beach, California. Last week, I wrote about the first two speakers. (See “3D Thursday: Where can you start with 3D?” and “3D Thursday: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2.5D, 3D, sSilicon, Xilinx
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