In analog layout design, precise layout matching techniques are crucial to ensure the accuracy and performance of the circuit so that transistors exhibit similar electrical properties (i.e.

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry.

Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at high temperatures. Silicon, since it's right above germanium on the ...

For instance, in 16-nm FinFETs, the degradation was found to be influenced by the transistor layout and bias conditions during irradiation, with short-channel devices exhibiting better tolerance ...

Contrast this with standard digital methodologies where signoff functional verification is performed at RTL level, relying on correct-by-construction methodologies to transition to gates, transistors ...