IC Insider

Low-power wireless performance starts with CMOS elegance
By Randy Torrance, Chipworks, 1/5/2009
The IC Insider delves into an ISM transceiver implemented in standard CMOS, revealing that interference-free operation in this crowded swath of spectrum begins with attention to layout details.

MEMS-based inertial sensor is not your grandfather's gyroscope
By Randy Torrance, Chipworks, 12/1/2008
The IC Insider looks at a MEMS-based gyroscope in microscopic detail, and finds that the ingenuity in this sophisticated sensor goes far beyond the process technology used to sculpt its mechanical features.

DDR3 SDRAM exposed: Inside a bleeding-edge, blazing-fast memory device
By Randy Torrance, Chipworks, 11/3/2008
The IC Insider reveals the densely packed real estate and impressive clock-synchronization circuitry that allow Samsung's 1-Gbit K4B1G0846D-HCF8 to achieve its 1066-Mbps data-transfer rate.
Lithium-ion-battery-charging IC powered by charge-transfer, control innovations
By Randy Torrance, Chipworks, 10/1/2008
The IC Insider: Reverse engineering the Maxim MAX8814ETA 28V linear lithium-ion battery-charger IC.

In this exclusive series, Chipworks, one of the world's leading IC reverse-engineering houses, provides detailed functional and circuit analysis of significant new integrated circuits. Coupling actual silicon imagery with circuit schematics, The IC Insider shows you how the latest ICs really work, and why—insight you'll never get from the data sheet. Look for The IC Insider at the beginning of each month, exclusively on EDN.com.

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