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Development Of SOI Based MMICs For Wireless LAN Applications
White Papers Due to its improved RF performances over conventional CMOS technology, SOI technology is a promising candidate for front-end wireless transceiver circuits. This paper demonstrates the development of fully on-chip integrated SOI based MMICs for IEEE...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Multiphase PLL For 10 Gb/s Links In SOI CMOS Technology
White Papers The PLL was fabricated in a 90-nm SOI CMOS process and covers a frequency band of 9.6 - 12.8 GHz at a supply voltage of 1.7 V. This paper presents a multiphase PLL designed for a 10x10 Gb/s serial link bundle that is based on a digital CDR receiver.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Hybrid Integration Of Light Emitters And Detectors With SOI Based Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MOEMS)
White Papers The approach taken by the consortium to overcome this issue is to use the single-crystal-silicon (SCS) device layer of a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer for the primary structural layer. A multidisciplinary team of end users and suppliers has...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Building An Infrastructure To Enable A Service-Oriented Architecture
White Papers SOI is a response to the operational complexity, poor efficiency, and inefficient provisioning models of deploying multiple disparate n-tier infrastructures. The SOI approach allows IT organizations to reduce operations costs, increase resource...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Soitec Streamlines Supply Chain, Boosts Productivity With Oracle Applications, Projects IRR Of 23%
White Papers Founded by two researchers from CEA-LETI, one of Europe's largest microelectronics research institutes, Soitec accelerated the international nanotechnologies race when it introduced its breakthrough SOI technology in 1992.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Adds Zip To PowerPC Chips
News IBM claims the addition of silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, can increase a processor's performance by between 20 and 30 percent. For the past five years IBM has been developing SOI technology, which adds a layer of insulation underneath a transistor...
[May 23, 2000, 8:13]
Toshiba Finds 'nothing' Makes A Better Transistor
News The idea is similar to silicon-on-insulator (SOI), an established technique developed in the 1970s and widely used by most manufacturers. Air is a very good insulator, and cuts down charge retention by 75 percent as opposed to SOI's 45 percent.
[December 5, 2001, 17:07]
IBM To Hit 1GHz With PowerPC Chip
News AMD plans to move to a 130-nanometer process early next year, followed by a transition to SOI. SOI adds a layer of oxide material between a transistor and the silicon substrate it rests on inside a chip.
[October 15, 2001, 10:35]
Motorola Brings Server Technology To The Desktop
News With AMD and Intel bringing SOI into their chip lines, will Apple lose its newfound SOI advantage over PCs? Motorola isn't the only chipmaker looking to bring SOI to the desktop. Advanced Micro Devices has announced plans to offer an Athlon chip...
[January 29, 2002, 14:14]
US Report: IBM Chips As Smooth As Ice
News Like IBM's copper technology, which it unveiled last October, the new SOI process will slowly make its way into a number of IBM products. Initially, IBM plans to use the design in its servers and supercomputers, in which the SOI technology could...
[August 3, 1998, 9:40]
Intel Gets Hammered By AMD
News AMD will also include SOI, a performance-enhancing manufacturing technique licensed from IBM. SOI adds a layer of oxide material between the transistor and silicon it rests on inside a chip. By employing a new manufacturing process, using design...
[April 27, 2001, 8:09]
Smaller Is Better, Says AMD Chief
News Silicon-on-insulator, or SOI, technology has been in development for some time at companies including AMD and IBM; it adds a layer of insulation underneath a transistor inside a processor. IBM, for example, claims the addition of SOI can increase a...
[June 27, 2000, 8:11]
IBM And AMD Form Chip Alliance
News The IBM-AMD alliance will specifically concentrate on how to better incorporate energy-saving technologies, such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and "low-k dielectrics", into chips. Integrating SOI has been a problem for AMD, according to analysts.
[January 9, 2003, 9:32]
AMD Says It's Gaining Ground
News Bode dismissed theories that the delays stem from manufacturing problems at AMD's Dresden, Germany, plant or from AMD's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, a manufacturing technique used to increase processor speed.
[September 20, 2002, 13:49]
Consumers Must Wait For Newest Athlons
News The delays of Barton and Clawhammer could indicate that AMD is having problems implementing silicon-on-insulator (SOI), a technique for managing electrical current inside chips, according to Kevin Krewell, senior editor of industry newsletter The...
[October 2, 2002, 7:25]
Intel To Unveil Nanotech Plans
News When IBM first released silicon-on-insulator technology, an additional layer of material below the transistors which allows them to run cooler and faster, Intel said that SOI provided little benefit. Years later, the company said it would...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
Sun And AMD Play The Same Game
Talkback Then there was SOI. AMD is copying Intel. Let's think about that. First there was copper interconnects. Oh wait, AMD had that first. Damn, Intel doesn't have that yet. Ah, there is x86-64. Intel will have it in a few months.
[November 15, 2004, 17:31]
IBM's New Chips Slash Power Consumption
News Combined with existing power-management features such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and copper wiring, the new on-off features could lead to a chip that uses one-tenth as much power as predecessors.
[October 12, 2001, 9:25]
Reliability Results Of A New EEPROM/Flash Memory Cell
White Papers The layout and operation of the NV cell made in SOI CMOS is presented. A unique non-volatile (NV) memory cell has been developed based on silicon on insulator technology. The memory cell structure results in high density, high speed and excellent...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Confronts Sun In Unix Face-off
News They're the first midrange Unix servers to use CPUs with IBM's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, which allows faster speeds without higher temperatures. The SOI chip technology debuted six months ago with IBM's p680 server.
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
