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Semiconductor equipment bookings flat, book-to-bill ratio remains above 1.0 11/20/2009
SEMI reports that although the book-to-bill ratio for October slipped from September's results, the semiconductor industry continues its slow recovery.
California approves TV energy-efficiency regulations 11/19/2009
EC guilty of maladministration in Intel antitrust investigation 11/18/2009
IBM aims to simulate brain's abilities with computer system 11/18/2009
PIC32 expands connectivity support 11/18/2009
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Analog Design
Shaping edges
11/12/2009
There are many ways to make properly shaped signal edges, but they are each equivalent to some linear filtering operation.
1G-sample/sec, 12-bit ADC works in base stations and instrumentation 11/10/2009
Quad power-converter-control chip uses PMBus. 11/10/2009
Online power-supply-design tool evaluates 48 billion designs 11/9/2009
16-bit, dual-channel ADCs span 20M to 80M samples/sec 11/4/2009
Sunstone improves the PCB123 CAD tool
Ultrasound does active wound healing
IC Design
Team hardens SiGe circuits
11/12/2009
Manufacturers once aimed certain process technologies at radiation-hardened designs. CMOS, for example, started out that way, when RCA (www.rca.com) developed its silicon-on-sapphire process. However, the overwhelming success of bulk-silicon CMOS processes has driven most of the alternatives into niches, forcing up their cost to the point that only the best-funded programs can use an alternativ...
Boeing postpones test flights again: How’s your tapeout looking? 11/12/2009
Reference-tool flows and process-design kits, part two 11/12/2009
Digital photomultipliers challenge vacuum-tube photomultipliers 11/12/2009
Mentor assembles a test-yield fusion platform 11/2/2009
Semiconductors, emerging markets, and the self-interest of survival
Femtocell reference design from picoChip heralds new phase in wireless buildout
Processor-based Design
"I'd like to buy a µ": the 36th annual microprocessor directory
10/22/2009
Don't take a chance on your processor selections. The recently updated directory provides details on hundreds of processors and cores from more than 70 vendors.
PIC32 expands connectivity support 11/18/2009
Six-core DSP stresses energy efficiency 11/6/2009
Cortex-M3 microcontroller cuts energy consumption 10/29/2009
FPGA-evaluation boards come with design software 10/21/2009
I'd like to buy a µ
Microcontrollers and human-machine interfaces
Applied System Design
“Not I,” said the rat: the tale of the Little Red Hen-gineer
11/12/2009
Tales From The Cube: It sometimes pays to shut off all the extra noise—um, information—and handle things your own way.
Exhibits emphasize markets and development ease 10/22/2009
Keep on truckin’ 10/22/2009
Designing an accessible board 10/8/2009
Is there gold in Green Technology? A microelectronics perspective 9/18/2009
Module merges SUMIT interface with ISM form factor
Wireless module claims five year battery life
Power Management
Industry standards lead push toward energy-efficient computing
11/12/2009
Environmental concerns and rising energy costs are spurring industry and government groups to develop requirements for high-efficiency ac and dc power conversion, leading to energy-efficient servers. Meeting the newest specifications will demand knowledge of competing power-conversion topologies, components, and design.
Secondary-side synchronous rectification boosts resonant converter efficiency 11/19/2009
New power-supply efficiency numbers herald a new era in power management 11/17/2009
Power-converter IC targets dimmable LEDs, needs no optoisolator 11/12/2009
Using high-current integrated-switch power-regulator ICs 10/22/2009
More on The Internet of Things: It may appeal to you if you’re a visionary or a systems company
HP announces sensors for its “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE)
Consumer Electronics Design
The Zune HD: more than an iPod touch wanna-be?
10/22/2009
Microsoft's Zune HD is notably more competitive with Apple's products than earlier Zune generations and even one-ups the iPod touch in several areas.
Deep packet inspection optimizes mobile applications 10/8/2009
T-Mobile's G1: Google's Android OS emerges 9/17/2009
Hard-disk drive touts 2-Tbyte storage, speedier spins 9/3/2009
Hands-on project: Transporting high-def video broadcasts: Are wireless networks up to the task? 8/20/2009
Thick-Air ATSC: A Dearth Of Reception Leaves Me Feeling Uneasy
Google's Chrome O/S Source: This Time I'm Serious
Communications/Network Design
Keep your hands off my Internet content
10/8/2009
Net neutrality is critical to ensuring that consumers, not deep-pocketed content providers in secret deals with service providers, determine what content they want to access.
3.3V mixer downconverts RF with good linearity 10/28/2009
Device enables remote computer control and management 10/16/2009
10GBase-T: Is it really coming this time? 8/24/2009
Cyborg crickets could create cooperative community networks 8/6/2009
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
PCB-layout techniques for gigasample ADCs
11/12/2009
When a multilayer board operates at speeds greater than a few hundred megahertz, it's a challenge to maintain signals without mismatches, losses, distortion, or EMI. Follow these guidelines for PCB layout to preserve signal integrity and achieve high-speed performance.
Negative-to-negative switch-mode converter offers high current and high efficiency 11/12/2009
ADC for programmable logic uses one capacitor 11/12/2009
Use two phases to cut current and improve EMI 11/12/2009
Fader switch uses inexpensive controller 11/12/2009
NEC Display Solutions of America EA190M: Display uses ECO-mode for reduced power consumption
ITT Interconnect Solutions VEAM GRH: Power connectors use composite back shells for weight reduction
Test & Measurement
Smooth operators communicating for communications test
11/12/2009
LXI and PXI instruments and related software provide the synchronization necessary for making complex measurements, and they enable test automation in the lab.
Avnet releases Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits 11/12/2009
Oscilloscope probe accessories—It's the little things that matter 10/30/2009
Tektronix spectrum analyzer reaches 20 GHz 10/22/2009
Implementation platform has two-times-faster throughput 10/22/2009
Award-winning test engineer's firm gets CE approval for Parkinson's treatment
Net-neutrality opponents: Keep your hands off my Internet content
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
ARM IP group wrestles complexity of 32-nm physical design
10/27/2009
A presentation at the recent ARM Developers' Conference reveals the extent to which library developers will shield chip designers from the challenges of 32-nm lithography.
Semiconductor equipment bookings flat, book-to-bill ratio remains above 1.0 11/20/2009
Mentor joins SOI Industry Consortium 11/13/2009
Elpida outsources to Winbond in DRAM manufacturing partnership 11/11/2009
Cree plans LED facility in China 11/9/2009
Capital spending: can it get worse?
Buy a house, get a free solar roof
Business Strategy
Healthcare reform gives health-monitoring electronics a new diagnosis
11/10/2009
Recent efforts to reform healthcare could give remote monitoring devices a shot in the arm.
EC guilty of maladministration in Intel antitrust investigation 11/18/2009
Semiconductor revenue to rebound in 2010 after smaller-than-expected 2009 decline 11/16/2009
Intel to pay AMD $1.25B to end legal battle 11/12/2009
PC MPU unit shipments jump 23% in Q3, signaling market is recovering 11/9/2009
Electronics Supply Chain
ROHS-like House bill travels a bumpy road
11/17/2009
A US House of Representatives bill focused on the same six elements in the European Union’s ROHS directive is causing controversy in the electronics industry as it pits industry groups against each other.
Pricing continues to increase for DDR2 and DDR3 modules, Converge reports 11/17/2009
Outsourcing to China in question 11/12/2009
MIIT proposes China ROHS catalog 11/12/2009
BLE set for surge 11/12/2009
Do you know enough about LEDs?
Comments wanted on 15 possible 'Substances of Very High Concern'
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EDN Online: New power-supply efficiency numbers herald new era in power management 11/19/2009
EDN on Components: PCB-layout techniques for gigasample ADCs 11/19/2009
Electronic News Today: Femtocell design heralds new phase in wireless buildout 11/19/2009
Electronic News Today: IBM aims to simulate brain's abilities with computer system 11/18/2009
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Future Cellphones: Leveraging Building Blocks for Better Experiences The majority of phones entering the market over the next few years will provide very different user ...
The Digital Set Top Box Market: Global Demand Remains High Worldwide digital set top box unit shipments are on track to reach 191 million in 2009, a total that...
Networked Digital Media Adapter/Player/Receiver Market Gets Crowded The market for networked digital media adapters (DMAs)/digital media players (DMPs)/digital media re...
DTV 2009: Declining Costs, Increasing Shipments, and Network Capability The market for digital television (DTV) sets is being governed by the switchover from analog to digi...
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Blogs
Semiconductors, emerging markets, and the self-interest of survival
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11/20/2009Sunstone improves the PCB123 CAD tool from Anablog
11/20/2009
More on The Internet of Things: It may appeal to you if you’re a visionary or a systems company from PowerSource
11/19/2009
Please Don't Ask Me to Register! from Jon Titus Blog
11/19/2009
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Product fEEd
NEC Display Solutions of America EA190M: Display uses ECO-mode for reduced power consumption 11/20/2009
ITT Interconnect Solutions VEAM GRH: Power connectors use composite back shells for weight reduction 11/19/2009
C&K Components CCM01 and CCM02: Smart-card connectors suit GPS and mobile-phone applications 11/18/2009
Ironwood Electronics PA-BGA117C-P-S-01: BGA-prototyping adapter has 500,000-spring-pin socket 11/17/2009
Samtec Inc Searay: High-density interconnects have right-angle sockets 11/16/2009
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