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Designing an off-line switching power supply involves many aspects of electrical engineering: analog and digital circuits, bipolar and MOS power device characteristics, magnetics, thermal ...

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In IC physical design, there is a tendency to focus on the synthesis and layout tasks, and to not give much consideration to the chip finishing tasks, at least not until the more pressing matters of ...

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As chips move to ever-finer geometries, the active region (diffusion) shapes of neighboring cells can impact timing analysis and power calculations for the entire design. The LLE (Local Layout Effect) ...