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AMD continues to withhold details on asset-lite plans
5/9/2008
Despite being encouraged by financial analysts to shed some light on its business strategy as it pertains to its fabs and profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz did not discuss rumors that the company will sell off its manufacturing facilities at its annual meeting of stockholders.
Pure-play foundries comprise 84% of market, IC Insights says 5/9/2008
TSMC, UMC April sales up y/y, q/q 5/9/2008
Marvell pays $10M settlement to SEC 5/9/2008
Nanometrics targets solar manufacturing industry with Tevet acquisition 5/9/2008
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Analog Design
Buck-boost converters change with the times
5/1/2008
Buck-boost converters provide voltages both above and below the input voltage. This feature is useful if your design's input voltage changes drastically or if its load voltage varies.
Fast-settling synchronous-PWM-DAC filter has almost no ripple 5/1/2008
Switched-gain op amp serves as phase detector or mixer 5/1/2008
RF screen coating saves space 5/1/2008
Rugged, high-voltage RF transistor uses vertical process, yielding better gain 4/30/2008
e-paper response time sped up by new controller chip
Li-ion batteries in hybrid vehicles
IC Design
Process makes silicon circuits that can fold, bend, and stretch
5/1/2008
A new process creates ICs that not only can bend to conform to various surfaces, but also can operate while stretching, compressing, and folding. Scientists at the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, working with colleagues at Northwestern University and Singapore’s Institute for High Performance Computing
Mentor Graphics acquires NXP design-for-test technology, developers 5/6/2008
Working group plans low-power serial DRAM interface 4/29/2008
Virage Logic adds 65-nm Common Power Format low-power standard cell libraries to portfolio 4/17/2008
Integrating high-speed serial I/O: no snap for SOC designers 4/17/2008
The future for smart phones: a Blackberry point of view
Quo vadis, smart phone: a serious question for SoC developers
Processor-based Design
Multiprocessor system sports up to four coherent, multi-threaded cores
4/1/2008
The nine-stage pipeline architecture of the MIPS32 1004K coherent processing system will support a worst-case 800-MHz base core operating frequency, in a TSMC 65-nm GP process, implementing a two-core, dual-threaded configuration with 32-kbyte caches for each core, as well as the Coherence Manager and Global Interrupt Controller.
Tensilica, Lawrence Berkeley lab tackle energy-efficient supercomputing for climate modeling 5/5/2008
Circuit and software provide accurate recalibration for baseline PIC microcontroller’s internal oscillator 5/1/2008
Microcontroller moving-dot display interface uses three I/O lines 5/1/2008
Microcontroller displays multiple chart or oscilloscope timing ticks 5/1/2008
Software and hardware: Processor vendors now give support and development kits serious attention
Learning machines
Applied System Design
Cougar computer attacks rugged applications
5/1/2008
With an eye toward demanding military, aerospace, medical, and industrial applications, VersaLogic announced the Cougar single-board computer at the April Embedded Systems Conference.
Pentek shrinks software-radio module 5/8/2008
Processor supports capacitive touch sensing for button and slider replacement 5/1/2008
Active-matrix display employs nanowire transistors 5/1/2008
Stackable receiver enables position tracking 4/28/2008
Embedded standards become critical
ESC Silicon Valley – Last Day
Power Management
Honest energy: The danger low-power-factor loads pose for the energy grid
4/2/2008
As typical household products become more sophisticated, the power factor of the load they represent decays—a trend that is exacerbating a growing stress on our electric-power infrastructure.
Solid-state cooling device harnesses corona discharge 5/1/2008
EPA releases Energy Star guidelines for servers 4/3/2008
Boost efficiency for low-cost flyback converters 4/2/2008
POE controller gears up for new physical layer 3/21/2008
Toshiba: Where nuclear power meets flash drives
How electronic accessories’ power consumption can affect your electric vehicle’s range
Consumer Electronics Design
Solid-state drives: HDD replacements? Huge disappointments? Neither.
5/1/2008
While the tit-for-tat over the relative merits of and prospects for traditional hard-disk drives versus flash-memory-based SSDs (solid-state drives) continues, our expert weighs in with a more pragmatic assessment. Economic and technical factors mean the two storage formats are more likely to coexist and thrive in specific niches.
Qualcomm and Taiwan's Foxlink plan factory for MEMS-based displays 5/7/2008
Solid-state cooling device harnesses corona discharge 5/1/2008
Active-matrix display employs nanowire transistors 5/1/2008
Working group plans low-power serial DRAM interface 4/29/2008
Streaming Assistance: VUDU's Cleverness
HDD Data Mining: The Gray Cloud's Silver Lining
Communications/Network Design
10-GbE in the mainstream
5/1/2008
10-GbE edges closer to major product rollouts as silicon prices and power consumption fall. But it may be two years or more before widespread deployments start meeting demand.
Intel invests $500M in Taiwan WiMax 4/22/2008
You can punch out and manufacture this cell-phone reference design 4/17/2008
Laying seamless WiMax fabric 4/3/2008
Voices: GreenPeak Technologies’ Cees Links: wireless-networking visionary 2/21/2008
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
Designing with high-power LEDs on epoxy-glass boards
3/31/2008
Learn the fundamentals of thermal design and how it can be implemented using practical methods and materials to produce acceptable high-power LED applications.
MEMS sensor provides early detection of motor-bearing irregularities 5/7/2008
Circuit and software provide accurate recalibration for baseline PIC microcontroller’s internal oscillator 5/1/2008
Microcontroller moving-dot display interface uses three I/O lines 5/1/2008
Switched-gain op amp serves as phase detector or mixer 5/1/2008
Analog Devices ADAV4601 and ADAV4622: Audio ICs support digital- and analog-baseband audio
CSR MusiCore1: Stereo-audio processor supports Bluetooth
Test & Measurement
Small footprint value-priced scopes offer bigger displays, deeper memory, bus debugging, and more
4/22/2008
Tektronix’s new DPO3000-series of lunchbox-sized, two- and four-channel, 100-, 300-, and 500-MHz-bandwidth scopes provides more than three times the screen area and 500 times the waveform-memory depth of Tek’s largest selling scopes, based on unit volume—the small-footprint TDS3000 series.
Mentor Graphics acquires NXP design-for-test technology, developers 5/6/2008
Microcontroller displays multiple chart or oscilloscope timing ticks 5/1/2008
Scrape it: How to probe a microstrip trace with no accessible test points or vias 4/28/2008
White-noise generator has no flicker-noise component 3/20/2008
Stupid consumers plague CE industry
Chip-laden cars still opportunity for semiconductor companies
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
Pure-play foundries comprise 84% of market, IC Insights says 5/9/2008
In its ranking of the top IC foundries for 2007, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based market research company IC Insights Inc reported this week that 11 of the top 14 foundries are based in the Asia-Pacific region, with only one - Europe-headquartered X-Fab, which merged with 1st Silicon in 2006 -- the only non-Asia-Pacific pure-play foundry company in the top 14 group.
AMD continues to withhold details on asset-lite plans 5/9/2008
TSMC, UMC April sales up y/y, q/q 5/9/2008
Nanometrics targets solar manufacturing industry with Tevet acquisition 5/9/2008
AMD revamps server roadmap 5/8/2008
Photovoltaic industry pushed to realign biz, seek alternative raw materials
What say you on semi equipment, process timing?
Business Strategy
AMD continues to withhold details on asset-lite plans
5/9/2008
Despite being encouraged by financial analysts to shed some light on its business strategy as it pertains to its fabs and profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz did not discuss rumors that the company will sell off its manufacturing facilities at its annual meeting of stockholders.
Marvell pays $10M settlement to SEC 5/9/2008
Technology, education driving digital transformation in Middle East, Intel chairman says 5/8/2008
NASA supercomputer to get boost from Intel, SGI 5/8/2008
AMD-Intel antitrust suit heats up 5/7/2008
Electronics Supply Chain
Semiconductor inventory situation worse than thought: Gartner
5/5/2008
An increase in inventory days has been seen in most of the supply chain, but it is particularly severe for semiconductor vendors, communications OEMs, and electronics retailers, according to the market research company. On that, Gartner reports the surplus in inventory may now take another two quarters before returning to normal electronics supply chain ranges.
Auction-style site aims to thwart grey market 5/5/2008
Intel Atom supply squeezed 5/2/2008
Apple 3G iPhone build expected to drive NAND, Micron stock prices 4/29/2008
Finally, some signs of improvement for DRAM market 4/25/2008
EDS: Strategy for distributor success with HB LEDs
EDS: The shallow US talent pool
Newsletters
Electronic News Today: AMD withholds fab details; 10-GbE in the mainstream; more... 5/9/2008
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EDN on Components: Active-matrix display, new products, more... 5/8/2008
EDN Online: Buck-boost converters, 2007 Innovator and Innovations of the Year, more... 5/8/2008
EDN on Development Tools: The Changing Role of Dev Kits, Vendor MCUs, Prototype Boards, More... 5/7/2008
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Blogs
Li-ion batteries in hybrid vehicles from Anablog
05/09/2008
Embedded standards become critical from Embedded Webblog
05/09/2008
Streaming Assistance: VUDU's Cleverness from Brian's Brain
05/09/2008
Toshiba: Where nuclear power meets flash drives from PowerSource
05/09/2008
Knowledge Center
Product fEEd
Analog Devices ADAV4601 and ADAV4622: Audio ICs support digital- and analog-baseband audio 05/09/2008
CSR MusiCore1: Stereo-audio processor supports Bluetooth 05/08/2008
Maxim Integrated Products MAX13041: Fault-protected CAN transceiver provides automotive power management 05/06/2008
Power-One FMP25.48: Rectifier provides 12.5-kW per rack unit 05/06/2008
MicroPower Direct SR7805: Switching regulator comes in miniature SIP package 05/02/2008
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