Globalfoundries 22FDX Technology Shows Advantages in PPA over 28nm Node

By SemiWiki

November 23, 2015

I really enjoy ARM Techcon when it rolls around every year because it has such a wide range of topics and exhibits. You can find maker gadgets, IoT information, small boards for industrial control, software development kits, semiconductor IP vendors as well as the big EDA players and foundries. This year after perusing the exhibit floor I attended a talk sponsored by Cadence on the topic of using Globalfoundries 22NM FD-SOI process to implement a quad core ARM Cortex-A17.

Joerg Winkler and Tamer Ragheb with Globalfoundries discussed the rational for choosing their 22FDX technology for this project. After which, they went into to the specifics of using Cadence Innovus for the actual physical design process.

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