The value of design thinking has been well documented in the past. This value can range from increased adoption to more revenue. With some minor modifications to already common software development ...

Today's mechanical design engineers are tasked with much more than conceiving and designing a functional product with structural integrity. Well-designed products are a culmination of many integrated ...

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Designing an off-line switching power supply involves many aspects of electrical engineering: analog and digital circuits, bipolar and MOS power device characteristics, magnetics, thermal ...

As chips move to ever-finer geometries, the active region (diffusion) shapes of neighboring cells can impact timing analysis and power calculations for the entire design. The LLE (Local Layout Effect) ...

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In IC physical design, there is a tendency to focus on the synthesis and layout tasks, and to not give much consideration to the chip finishing tasks, at least not until the more pressing matters of ...