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97 relations: Altium, Ansys, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Automatic test pattern generation, Boolean algebra, Built-in self-test, Cadence Design Systems, Calma, Carver Mead, Circuit (computer science), Circuit design, Circuit extraction, Clock domain crossing, Comparison of EDA software, Computer-aided design, Daisy Systems, Data loss, Deadlock, Design Automation and Test in Europe, Design Automation Conference, Design flow (EDA), Design for manufacturability, Diffraction, Digital electronics, EDA database, Electromagnetic field solver, Electronics, Espresso heuristic logic minimizer, Failure rate, Field-programmable gate array, Formal equivalence checking, Formal verification, Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation, Functional safety, Functional verification, Gateway Design Automation, GDSII, Gerber format, Hardware emulation, Hewlett-Packard, High-level synthesis, IBM, IBM 700/7000 series, In-circuit emulation, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Integrated circuit, Intel, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Inverse lithography, Lint (software), ... Expand index (47 more) »
Altium
Altium Limited is an Australian multinational software company that provides electronic design automation software to engineers who design printed circuit boards.
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Ansys
Ansys, Inc. is an American multinational company with its headquarters based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
The Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, or ASP-DAC is the international conference on VLSI design automation in Asia and South Pacific regions, the most active region of design, CAD and fabrication of silicon chips in the world.
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Automatic test pattern generation
ATPG (acronym for both automatic test pattern generation and automatic test pattern generator) is an electronic design automation method or technology used to find an input (or test) sequence that, when applied to a digital circuit, enables automatic test equipment to distinguish between the correct circuit behavior and the faulty circuit behavior caused by defects.
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Boolean algebra
In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra.
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Built-in self-test
A built-in self-test (BIST) or built-in test (BIT) is a mechanism that permits a machine to test itself.
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Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (stylized as cādence)Investor's Business Daily Retrieved November 12, 2020 is an American multinational technology and computational software company.
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Calma
Calma Company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer-based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical and architectural design markets.
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Carver Mead
Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer.
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Circuit (computer science)
In theoretical computer science, a circuit is a model of computation in which input values proceed through a sequence of gates, each of which computes a function.
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Circuit design
The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from complex electronic systems down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit. Electronic design automation and circuit design are electronic engineering.
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Circuit extraction
The electric circuit extraction or simply circuit extraction, also netlist extraction, is the translation of an integrated circuit layout back into the electrical circuit (netlist) it is intended to represent. Electronic design automation and circuit extraction are electronic engineering.
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Clock domain crossing
In digital electronic design a clock domain crossing (CDC), or simply clock crossing, is the traversal of a signal in a synchronous digital circuit from one clock domain into another.
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Comparison of EDA software
This page is a comparison of electronic design automation (EDA) software which is used today to design the near totality of electronic devices.
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Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
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Daisy Systems
Daisy Systems Corporation, incorporated in 1981 in Mountain View, California, was a computer-aided engineering company, a pioneer in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.
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Data loss
Data loss is an error condition in information systems in which information is destroyed by failures (like failed spindle motors or head crashes on hard drives) or neglect (like mishandling, careless handling or storage under unsuitable conditions) in storage, transmission, or processing.
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Deadlock
In concurrent computing, deadlock is any situation in which no member of some group of entities can proceed because each waits for another member, including itself, to take action, such as sending a message or, more commonly, releasing a lock.
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Design Automation and Test in Europe
Design, Automation & Test in Europe, or DATE is a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation.
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Design Automation Conference
The Design Automation Conference, or DAC, is an annual event, a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation (EDA).
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Design flow (EDA)
Design flows are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit.
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Design for manufacturability
Design for manufacturability (also sometimes known as design for manufacturing or DFM) is the general engineering practice of designing products in such a way that they are easy to manufacture.
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Diffraction
Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.
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Digital electronics
Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them. Electronic design automation and digital electronics are electronic engineering.
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EDA database
An EDA database is a database specialized for the purpose of electronic design automation.
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Electromagnetic field solver
Electromagnetic field solvers (or sometimes just field solvers) are specialized programs that solve (a subset of) Maxwell's equations directly. Electronic design automation and Electromagnetic field solver are electronic engineering.
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Electronics
Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.
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Espresso heuristic logic minimizer
The ESPRESSO logic minimizer is a computer program using heuristic and specific algorithms for efficiently reducing the complexity of digital logic gate circuits.
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Failure rate
Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed in failures per unit of time.
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Field-programmable gate array
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing.
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Formal equivalence checking
Formal equivalence checking process is a part of electronic design automation (EDA), commonly used during the development of digital integrated circuits, to formally prove that two representations of a circuit design exhibit exactly the same behavior.
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Formal verification
In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of a system with respect to a certain formal specification or property, using formal methods of mathematics.
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Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation
Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation is a journal published by Now Publishers.
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Functional safety
Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protection operating correctly in response to its inputs or failure in a predictable manner (fail-safe).
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Functional verification
Functional verification is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification.
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Gateway Design Automation
"Verilog HDL originated at Automated Integrated Design Systems (later renamed as Gateway Design Automation) in 1985.
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GDSII
GDSII stream format (GDSII), is a binary database file format which is the de facto industry standard for Electronic Design Automation data exchange of integrated circuit or IC layout artwork.
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Gerber format
The Gerber format is an open, ASCII, vector format for printed circuit board (PCB) designs.
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Hardware emulation
In integrated circuit design, hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware (typically a system under design) with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system.
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Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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High-level synthesis
High-level synthesis (HLS), sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that takes an abstract behavioral specification of a digital system and finds a register-transfer level structure that realizes the given behavior.
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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IBM 700/7000 series
The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s.
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In-circuit emulation
In-circuit emulation (ICE) is the use of a hardware device or in-circuit emulator used to debug the software of an embedded system.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
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International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) is a yearly conference about electronic design automation.
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Inverse lithography
In semiconductor device fabrication, the inverse lithography technology (ILT) is an approach to photomask design.
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Lint (software)
Lint is the computer science term for a static code analysis tool used to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors and suspicious constructs.
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Logic simulation
Logic simulation is the use of simulation software to predict the behavior of digital circuits and hardware description languages.
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Logic synthesis
In computer engineering, logic synthesis is a process by which an abstract specification of desired circuit behavior, typically at register transfer level (RTL), is turned into a design implementation in terms of logic gates, typically by a computer program called a synthesis tool. Electronic design automation and logic synthesis are electronic engineering.
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Lynn Conway
Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.
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Magic (software)
Magic is an electronic design automation (EDA) layout tool for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuit (IC) originally written by John Ousterhout and his graduate students at UC Berkeley.
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Magma Design Automation
Magma Design Automation was a software company in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.
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Market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
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Mask data preparation
Mask data preparation (MDP), also known as layout post processing, is the procedure of translating a file containing the intended set of polygons from an integrated circuit layout into set of instructions that a photomask writer can use to generate a physical mask.
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Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon.
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Metastability (electronics)
In electronics, metastability is the ability of a digital electronic system to persist for an unbounded time in an unstable equilibrium or metastable state.
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Model checking
In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification (also known as correctness).
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MOSIS
MOSIS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service) is multi-project wafer service that provides metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) chip design tools and related services that enable universities, government agencies, research institutes and businesses to prototype chips efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Netlist
In electronic design, a netlist is a description of the connectivity of an electronic circuit.
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Optical proximity correction
Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a photolithography enhancement technique commonly used to compensate for image errors due to diffraction or process effects.
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Photolithography
Photolithography (also known as optical lithography) is a process used in the manufacturing of integrated circuits.
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Photomask
A photomask (also simply called a mask) is an opaque plate with transparent areas that allow light to shine through in a defined pattern.
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Photoplotter
A photoplotter is a specialized electro-opto-mechanical machine that exposes a latent image on a medium, usually high-contrast monochromatic (black-and-white) photographic film, using a light source under computer control.
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Physical verification
Physical verification is a process whereby an integrated circuit layout (IC layout) design is verified via EDA software tools to ensure correct electrical and logical functionality and manufacturability.
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Place and route
Place and route (also called PnR or P&R) is a stage in the design of printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, and field-programmable gate arrays.
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Placement (electronic design automation)
Placement is an essential step in electronic design automation — the portion of the physical design flow that assigns exact locations for various circuit components within the chip's core area.
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Platform-based design
Platform-based design is a design approach emphasizing systematic reuse, for developing complex products based upon platforms and compatible hardware and software virtual component, intended to reduce development risks, costs and time to market.
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit. Electronic design automation and printed circuit board are electronic engineering.
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Programming tool
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.
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Register-transfer level
In digital circuit design, register-transfer level (RTL) is a design abstraction which models a synchronous digital circuit in terms of the flow of digital signals (data) between hardware registers, and the logical operations performed on those signals.
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Resolution enhancement technologies
Resolution enhancement technologies are methods used to modify the photomasks in the lithographic processes used to make integrated circuits (ICs or "chips") to compensate for limitations in the optical resolution of the projection systems.
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RTLinux
RTLinux is a hard realtime real-time operating system (RTOS) microkernel that runs the entire Linux operating system as a fully preemptive process.
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Schematic capture
Schematic capture or schematic entry is a step in the design cycle of electronic design automation (EDA) at which the electronic diagram, or electronic schematic of the designed electronic circuit, is created by a designer.
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Schematic-driven layout
Schematic driven layout is the concept in integrated circuit layout or PCB layout where the EDA software links the schematic and layout databases.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Semiconductor device fabrication
Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips (such as NAND flash and DRAM).
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Semiconductor fabrication plant
In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab; sometimes foundry) is a factory for semiconductor device fabrication.
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Siemens
Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.
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Signoff (electronic design automation)
In the automated design of integrated circuits, signoff (also written as sign-off) checks is the collective name given to a series of verification steps that the design must pass before it can be taped out.
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Silicon compiler
A silicon compiler is an electronic design automation software tool that is used for high-level synthesis of integrated circuits.
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SPICE
SPICE ("Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis") is a general-purpose, open-source analog electronic circuit simulator.
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Static timing analysis
Static timing analysis (STA) is a simulation method of computing the expected timing of a synchronous digital circuit without requiring a simulation of the full circuit.
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Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality.
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System on a chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC; pl. SoCs) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system.
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Technology CAD
Technology computer-aided design (technology CAD or TCAD) is a branch of electronic design automation (EDA) that models semiconductor fabrication and semiconductor device operation.
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Tektronix
Tektronix, historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment.
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United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Verilog
Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems.
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Very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip.
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VHDL
VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates, for design entry, documentation, and verification purposes.
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Wafer (electronics)
In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.
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Wave interference
In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two coherent waves are combined by adding their intensities or displacements with due consideration for their phase difference.
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Zuken
is a Japanese multinational corporation, specializing in software and consulting services for end-to-end electrical and electronic engineering.
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References
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