The test chip will enable the correlation of the simulation models to the FinFET process and contains test structures, standard cells, a PLL and embedded SRAMs. The memory instances include high-density SRAMs designed to operate at very low voltages and high-speed SRAMs to validate the process performance.
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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that its multi-year collaboration with Samsung on FinFET technology has achieved a critical milestone: the successful tapeout of the first test chip on Samsung's 14LPE process.
The multi-core war may have begun, but the battle will be fought with software, although that's not to say that the hardware side has already been won: apparently the test chip is much larger than equivalent chips -- 275 mm squared, versus a typical Core 2 Duo's 143 mm squared -- and Intel currently has no way to hook up memory to the chip.
Engineers love the chips, which let them test their chip designs quickly, without waiting several months for an ASIC to be hard-wired together.
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When a designer is ready to test part of a new chip layout, his workstation uses NetBatch to find all the other machines on the network that are idle, whether they are in Ireland or China or the U.S., and feed the job to them.
The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
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Every doctor visit, diagnosis, lab test, prescription will be embedded in that chip, not on a server, but the customer can download the information on a computer.
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Like the lab-on-a-chip that allows people in remote parts of the world to test for HIV and syphilis, OraQuick can save lives by giving people hesitant to go to the clinic a test they can perform relatively easily and in the privacy of their own homes.
The test will come this summer, when AMD launches its four-processor Barcelona chip.
The chip, which has been in development for over a decade, just completed its first human test, which it passed with flying colors.
Just one square inch, the chip contains 2, 056 microvalves that can selectively mix reagents together (in this case to test for the activity of a particular enzyme in a bacterium) in 256 reaction chambers, each one holding less than one-billionth of a liter of fluorescent dye.
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