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Purdue engineers create model for testing transistor reliability

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors - a potential tool that industry could use ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Forget transistors: an intelligent material computes like a brain

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...
SpaceNews

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...
ZDNet

Testing new transistors in space

Northwestern University researchers have developed new transistors which are currently tested on the International Space Station (ISS) to see how they react to cosmic radiation. These transistors, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Journey From Cell-Aware To Device-Aware Testing Begins

Early results of using device-aware testing on alternative memories show expanded test coverage, but this is just the start. Once the semiconductor industry realized that it was suffering from device ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
Electronic Design

Connecting Transistors— and Measuring Their Performance

Transistors are a dime a dozen—or maybe a dime a billion. When it comes to designing a state-of-the-art mobile device or a high-performance server, it’s how you put the transistors together that ...