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automatically be sent to the medical centre If you apply this sensor to your sports gear, you can be served more detailed and improved training service for yourself. For example, the sensor detects the pressure of your hands on the golf club as well as the position of your hands. Then, it sends the information to your smartphone to help you find the perfect grip. You can attach these sensors to automotive for safety and convenience. The sensor under-stands your posture, body type and weight to automatically correct height of car-seat or pressure of airbag. If you apply the sensor to a chair, it measures the pressure on the seat and sends the data to you. You can use this information to correct your posture or analyze your study patterns. The company developed special polyurethane material that is sensitive to the pressure and has great elasticity, and inserted the material between the electronic fibers. When

an external force is applied to the sensor, electric poles inside the fiber detect the deformation to de-termine the pressure. This product is very durable in various environments. It works normally over 240 hours from 40 degrees below zero to 80 above zero. A sensor remains functional even after the average 70-kg man sit on the sensor 100,000 times. Changhwan Kim, Head of the LG Innotek’s R&D Center said, “We tried to break away from the previous method and attempt new methods to develop innovative products.” He also said, “We will continue to develop materials and components in various fields to provide new experiences to our customers.” According to BBC Research & Consulting, a global market research institute, the global pressure sensor market is expected to grow from USD 11.5 billion in 2014 to USD 16.3 billion in 2019. The annual average growth rate is expected to be 7.2% between 2014 and 2019.

Imec and Synopsys Collaborate on Interconnect Resistivity Model to Enable Early Screening of Interconnect Technology Options at Advanced Nodes

World-leading nano-electronics research center imec and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced an interconnect resistivity model to support the screening and selection of alternative interconnect metals and liner-barrier materials at the 7nm node and beyond. With the continued scaling of advanced process nodes, the impact of

“We have already released to our partners a number of sets of model parameters related to various liner/barrier systems for Cu metallization or to alternative metals, such as Ru and Co, which they will use to screen metallization options for next-generation interconnect technologies,” stated Dan Mocuta,

director, Logic Device and Integration at imec. To use the new resistivity model, customers simulate the fabrication of the interconnect structure in 3D using the Synopsys process emulation tool Process Explorer, and then simulate the wire and via resistance in Raphael, the Synopsys gold standard interconnect field solver. This simulation flow accounts for the impact of layout rules, multi-patterning flows, and process- induced 3D features on the resistance of any conductive net in a multilayer interconnect stack, thereby predicting the

parasitic interconnect resistance on the switching delay of standard cells rises considerably. The new model developed through this collaboration enables the evaluation of interconnect material and process options through simulations in the early stages of technology development, when wafer data is not available, and in the process optimization and integration stages of technology development, where it reduces expensive and time-consuming wafer-based iterations.

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