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For power semiconductor devices (such as BJT, MOSFET, thyristor or IGBT), the safe operating area (SOA) is defined as the voltage and current conditions over which the device can be expected to operate without self-damage. [1] Illustration of safe operating area of a bipolar power transistor.
An SOI MOSFET is a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) device in which a semiconductor layer such as silicon or germanium is formed on an insulator layer which may be a buried oxide (BOX) layer formed in a semiconductor substrate. [8] [9] [10] SOI MOSFET devices are adapted for use by the computer industry.
The need for such programs was recognized relatively early in the history of ICs, and programs to perform this comparison were written as early as 1975. [1] These early programs operated mainly on the level of graph isomorphism, checking whether the schematic and layout were indeed identical. With the advent of digital logic, this was too ...
Listed are many semiconductor scale examples for various metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, or MOS transistor) semiconductor manufacturing process nodes. Timeline of MOSFET demonstrations
High-temperature operating life (HTOL) is a reliability test applied to integrated circuits (ICs) to determine their intrinsic reliability. This test stresses the IC at an elevated temperature, high voltage and dynamic operation for a predefined period of time.
Semiconductor fabrication techniques continued to improve throughout. The Micralign, which had "created the modern IC industry", was obsolete by the early 1980s. They were replaced by the new steppers , which used high magnifications and extremely powerful light sources to allow a large mask to be copied onto the wafer at ever-smaller sizes.
The tools work together in a design flow that chip designers use to design and analyze entire semiconductor chips. Since a modern semiconductor chip can have billions of components, EDA tools are essential for their design; this article in particular describes EDA specifically with respect to integrated circuits (ICs).
The semiconductor industry is in turn the driving force behind the wider electronics industry, [7] with annual power electronics sales of £135 billion ($216 billion) as of 2011, [8] annual consumer electronics sales expected to reach $2.9 trillion by 2020, [9] tech industry sales expected to reach $5 trillion in 2019, [10] and e-commerce with ...