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Vitesse zeroes in on Carrier Ethernet switch needs 2/9/2010
The explosion of interest in Carrier Ethernet (CE) seems to be at the front of everyone's mind these days, including those at Vitesse, which has announced three media-access controller (MAC) and switch chips targeted at CE.
Nokia to cut staff as it focuses Salo plant on smartphones 2/8/2010
Actel CEO John East to retire 2/5/2010
Double-digit growth returning for many IC products, including DRAM, 32-bit MCUs 2/4/2010
Wireless to go 2/4/2010
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Analog Design
Way too cool
2/4/2010
Using two recent real-world examples, Howard Johnson considers the drawbacks of rapid adoption of large-scale societal change.
Jitter and the ins and outs of SNR 1/21/2010
Integration in the other direction 1/21/2010
It’s a Gaussian world 1/7/2010
Determine your IC's transient thermal behavior to prevent overheating 1/6/2010
Five major engineering screw-ups
Make your network analyzer like a Ridley or Venable isolated type
IC Design
Debugging and analysis with SystemVerilog test bench
2/4/2010
Some minor additions to OVM libraries can open a new world of visibility for design verifiers.
Vitesse zeroes in on Carrier Ethernet switch needs 2/9/2010
Can C beat RTL? 2/4/2010
Tools accurately simulate noise in mixed-signal ASICs 2/4/2010
Mindspeed visualizes an opening in the base-station market 1/26/2010
Outsource everything! A panel looks to the limits of outsourcing
Toyota Prius and Camry, drive-by-wire, and our failure to learn from experience
Processor-based Design
Recognizing technology’s inflections
1/21/2010
Inflections involve improving performance, cost, or both. More important, they simplify systems for their users.
Acceleration of program execution 2/3/2010
Blackfin targets lower BOM costs for industrial applications 1/20/2010
Microchip buys ZeroG Wireless 1/11/2010
Processor pushes power even lower 12/31/2009
Inflection Points : Wireless and SDR
Season for Design Challenges
Applied System Design
Swan song for swap-out strategy
2/4/2010
Tales From The Cube: One engineer learns the hard way that blindly swapping boards between defective and working units is a risky venture.
Acceleration of program execution 2/3/2010
Algorithm keeps data safe 1/21/2010
Brown's buzzer busts business 1/21/2010
NI pursues robot revolution 1/15/2010
Module merges SUMIT interface with ISM form factor
Wireless module claims five year battery life
Power Management
Burn-in, burn-in: dc inferno
12/15/2009
Tales From The Cube: Missing information on an optocoupler's data sheet cuts short a much-needed vacation for one engineer.
Integration in the other direction 1/21/2010
Determine your IC's transient thermal behavior to prevent overheating 1/6/2010
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009 12/15/2009
Power supplies for new LED applications fit into high-margin markets 12/15/2009
7W LED bulb spills its guts, lives to light another day
Cree breaks 200 lm/W barrier, demos 208 lm/W in lab
Consumer Electronics Design
x86 processors: Continued innovation is a welcome contradiction
2/4/2010
Although the last several years have seen much constriction within the semiconductor industry, development and implementation activities in the PC area have remained comparatively bullish. X86 vendors have various plans for continuing this trend.
Apple finally announces iPad tablet 1/27/2010
Integration in the other direction 1/21/2010
Integration amassed: analyzing a NAS 1/21/2010
E-readers and obsolescence 1/7/2010
A Computer Virus Infection Repeat: Is Adobe Flash (Enabled By Yahoo) The Culprit?
Analyzing A NAS: PLX Delivers Differentiation Via Evolution
Communications/Network Design
Wireless to go
2/4/2010
Vendors are serving up a variety of hardware and software flavors to add communications capability to fixed and mobile devices.
Mindspeed visualizes an opening in the base-station market 1/26/2010
Integration in the other direction 1/21/2010
IP networks’ spread brings challenges to networking SOCs 1/21/2010
Could the global network be a thousand times more efficient? 1/12/2010
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
Innovative packaging improves LEDs’ light output, lifetime, and reliability
1/7/2010
HB-LED packaging design continues to advance, contributing almost as much to performance as the LED chip itself.
Vitesse zeroes in on Carrier Ethernet switch needs 2/9/2010
Spice simulators provide behavioral sources to mere mortals 2/4/2010
Multidecade BCD DAC uses resistors of only six values 2/4/2010
Converter translates Bayer raw data to RGB format 2/4/2010
Optek OPB732: Long-distance reflective switch aims at wind turbines for rpm sensing
NKK Switches HB2: Illuminated pushbuttons have quiet actuation
Test & Measurement
8 billion-transfer/sec PCIe 3.0 test platform integrates new digital-test console
2/2/2010
Agilent Technologies has introduced a test platform that includes a digital-test console, which provides a complete integrated protocol analyzer and exerciser for one- to 16-lane implementations of the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) 3.0 specification, which is currently under development within the PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest Group).
Accurate, handheld, 4- and 6-GHz, two-port VNAs integrate calibration 2/2/2010
Integration in the other direction 1/21/2010
Affordable scope family now includes four-channel and 40-MHz models 1/20/2010
High-performance scopes provide 20-times boost in waveform-update rates 1/15/2010
Award-winning test engineer's firm gets CE approval for Parkinson's treatment
Net-neutrality opponents: Keep your hands off my Internet content
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Business Strategy
- Electronics Supply Chain
Semiconductor Manufacturing
AMD chases Qualcomm as second-ranked top fabless IC supplier
1/19/2010
There’s nothing new about Qualcomm ranking as the industry’s top fabless IC supplier as listed by IC Insights data. But what is new to the research house’s ranking is the presence of AMD, which last year began to spin off its manufacturing operations to form GlobalFoundries, allowing it to be considered for the IC Insights ranking.
TSMC moves fab builds, expansions ahead to meet ‘urgent increases in customer demand’ 1/19/2010
Micron teams with Australia’s Origin for photovoltaic joint venture 1/15/2010
GlobalFoundries integrates with Chartered, expected to take No. 2 status in foundry space 1/13/2010
Solar market begins recovery in 2010 1/12/2010
Capital spending: can it get worse?
Buy a house, get a free solar roof
Business Strategy
US chip industry expected to be second only to retail in job declines 1/26/2010
Only retail department stores will lose more jobs than the US chip industry over the next decade, according to government projections. And American executives might be joining the flight.
Nokia to cut staff as it focuses Salo plant on smartphones 2/8/2010
Double-digit growth returning for many IC products, including DRAM, 32-bit MCUs 2/4/2010
Synopsys eyes automotive, consumer application space with VaST buy 2/3/2010
Microchip buys SST in cash deal 2/3/2010
Electronics Supply Chain
Niche distributors specialize for market edge
2/2/2010
Niche distributors such as Allied Electronics, TTI, Nu Horizons, and Mouser have carved out specialized roles to attract customers in a component world dominated by broad-line distributors.
NEDA targets counterfeit components with return guidelines 2/4/2010
DOE introduces lighting-facts label 2/4/2010
Mobile-CE-device shipments to increase 55-fold 2/4/2010
Top 10 OEMs/ODMs accounted for more than a third of 2009 semiconductor demand 1/25/2010
Do you know enough about LEDs?
Comments wanted on 15 possible 'Substances of Very High Concern'
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Blogs
CoWare from EDA Graffiti
02/08/2010
Super Bowl ads score tech touchdown from Now Hear This!
02/08/2010
Five major engineering screw-ups from Anablog
02/08/2010
One Extra Component and Two Dumb Mistakes from Jon Titus Blog
02/08/2010
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Product fEEd
Optek OPB732: Long-distance reflective switch aims at wind turbines for rpm sensing 02/02/2010
NKK Switches HB2: Illuminated pushbuttons have quiet actuation 02/01/2010
Texas Instruments TPS22924C: Integrated load switch has low on-resistance 01/29/2010
Fairchild Semiconductor FSA800: USB accessory switch includes negative-swing capability 01/28/2010
Vishay Intertechnology Sfernice PLAC 100: Planar transformer handles as much as 22W for SMPS applications 01/27/2010
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