This FDSOI Designer bulletin highlights what was new in the FD-SOI world within the 2 last months as detected by D&R.

It aims at creating a live FDSOI designer community sharing the latest Research achievements, new design platform, IP/SoC solutions up to business News and vision in this field.

To be comprehensive the participation all members of this ecosystem is key. So please send us recent missing data and more important any contributions(blog, white paper...) you would like to share with this community. Contact us

This bulletin is partitioned into 3 sections

• What’s New ?
• New market available IP or SoC
• More innovation(articles, conferences)

Recent FDSOI News have been partitioned in 3 areas

• FDSOI Technology News
• Application centric News
• Business News

Technology Process

• Simulation of FDSOI-ISFET with Tunable Sensitivity by Temperature and Dual-Gate Structure (Jun.30 2021)
  from Electronics 2021

Low Power and process efficiency

• The CertusPro-NX: Lattice Leverages FD-SOI for New Low Power FPGAs (Jun. 23, 2021)
  from allaboutcircuits.com

Quantum computing

• Equal1 Laboratories Announces Major Breakthrough with Fully Integrated Quantum Processor Operating at 3.7 K Using Commercially Available Technology  (May 13, 2021)
  from ucd.ie

RISC-V

• European Processor Initiative Announces EPAC1.0 RISC-V Test Chip Taped-out (Jun. 01, 2021)
  from hpcwire.com
• EPI EPAC1.0 RISC-V Test Chip Taped-out (Jun. 01, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence

• Tech's Effects Are Not Always Clear. Here Are 10 Examples That Provides Clarity (Jul. 07, 2021)
  from designnews.com

Automotive

• STMicroelectronics Delivers First Stellar Advanced Automotive Microcontrollers for New Road-Car Projects (Jun. 16, 2021)
  from eejournal.com

• GlobalFoundries Is A Leading-Edge Foundry Despite Claims Otherwise (Jun. 21, 2021)
  from SemiAnalysis
• Soitec unveils its strategy for 2026 and its target to triple its revenue (Jun. 10, 2021)
  from Soitec.com
• Ambiq shows interest in FinFET, FDSOI and an IPO (May 18, 2021)
  from EENews Europe

In the last period 5 new market available solutions have been announced, 4 by Dolphin design, a project partner, and one by Dialog Semi. Remember that all FDSOI market available iP can be found here >>

	Always-on Voice Activity Detection interfacing with analog microphones with embedded microphone bias
	Capless low input voltage LDO in GlobalFoundries 22FDX
	Capacitor-less 101 dB dynamic range ADC with low power mode and ultra low latency capability
	Nano power DC-DC converter in GF 22FDX with ultra-low quiescent current and high efficiency at light load
	LDO 100mA Capless Voltage Regulator GF 22nm FDX

One patent has been identified from Soitec:

• Ferro Buried Oxide for FDSOI (FR2102738)

• System-Level considerations for the modelling, the design and the characterization of PLL-Devices - C. Hedayat et al – UPB, June 13, 2021, 19th IEEE Interregional NEWCAS Conference - June 13-16, 2021 - Virtual Event - Toulon, France

• Influence of dual Ge/C pre-amorphization implantation on the Ni1−xPtxSi phase nucleation and growth mechanisms – CEA-LETI (ScienceDirect , May 1, 2021)

• Engineering a Manycore Processor for Edge Computing - Benoît Dupont de Dinechin – Kalray (IEEE, June 8, 2021, submitted to CPS&IoT)

• SOI-Based Multi-Channel AWG with Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Interrogation System - Weng, S.; Yuan, P.; Zhuang, W.; Zhang, D.; Luo, F.; Zhu, L. (MDPI, Jun. 10, 2021)

• Nonvolatile programmable silicon photonics using an ultralow-loss Sb2Se3 phase change material (Science Advances, Jun. 16, 2021)

• Inverse-designed ultra-compact high efficiency and low crosstalk optical interconnect based on waveguide crossing and wavelength demultiplexer - Xu, Y., Huang, J., Yang, L. et al. (Nature, Scientific Reports, Jun. 18, 2021)

• Linearization Technique of Low Power Opamps in CMOS FD-SOI Technologies - Kuzmicz, W. Warsaw University of Technology (Preprints, Jun. 16, 2021)

More information about research publications can be found here >>