jamesik

Indeed. For instance, dopants can diffuse and metals can intermix with silicon (silicide formation), both degrade device performance. Solder and packages melt before any of this happens.

Sure. I'm currently in the 1st year of a master's in nanotechnology. I'm taking courses in quantum physics, semiconductor physics, semiconductor devices and materials physics.

The semiconductor devices course follows Simon Sze's book almost 1:1. I've found Neamen's "Semiconductor Physics and Devices" and Kasap's "Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices" also excellent for additional explanations.

Surreal. I am currently studying this book for a university class, and the moment I take a break and check HN I see this.

I have been using this for the past few weeks for my thesis in Emacs & VS Code and have loved it! Thank you so much. Writing in a design suite was a really annoying process.

In the scope of my thesis I have to generate a lot of documentation, and I've been looking into parsers whose AST I can use to help automatically generate this. Would this be possible with vhdl_lang? I currently have a Python script that regexes its way through with a lot of edge cases, but this is not a reliable way of doing it if I want to add more features.