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Jul. 1, 2007ZRAM reverses the economics of SOI - making cheaper chips
This article, published in July 2007, reasons why the zero capacitor DRAMs ("ZRAMs"), offered by Innovative Silicon Inc, more than compensate for the higher cost of SOI base wafers (versus bulk silicon wafers) and helps to reduce the cost of SOI-based chips to drop below the production cost of the same design in bulk CMOS
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Apr. 6, 2006Semico analyzes Cost-of-Ownership (COO)
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By Christine Raynaud, CEA-LETI / STMicroelectronics
For RF applications, SOI offers key advantages over bulk. It provides the ability to meet very low voltage and low noise applications, allows for improvement of passive devices and improves integration capabilities to reduce cost. This short course details the considerations for RF design with SOI.