Defects can show up in the clock trees that drive scan chains, and even inside blocks of scan cells, which may number in the millions. Jayant D’Souza, technical product director for yield learning ...

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Intel has published a paper about its 18A (1.8nm-class) fabrication process at the VLSI 2025 symposium, consolidating all its ...

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Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research team at Penn State University claims to have built the first working CMOS ...

National Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro and Nano Manufacture Technology, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking ...

46 IN-CIRCUIT TRANSISTOR TESTER by A. Rigby In electronic troubleshooting a transistor is generally not above suspicion until it responds correctly to the usual diode-tests with an ohmmeter. Before ...

Transistor Tester Design A three-legged transistor or FET can be connected in six possible configurations, but only one is correct. This compact circuit offers a straightforward and reliable way to ...

The invention of the first transistor—the point-contact transistor—by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain in 1947 marked a pivotal moment in electronic technology, and arguably an inflection point in ...

In this article, you will learn the basics of transistor operation, logic gates, and circuit design techniques. Selected by the community from 12 contributions. Learn more ...