FPGAs balance lower power, smaller nodes drip by drip By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor
The FPGA industry faces the Sisyphean task of addressing demand for low-power operation, even as vendors face the lure of performance, density, and price-per-gate advantages of the 65-nm-process node.
Design Features
Making vehicles safer by making them smarter By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor
New features must be smarter to add value without distracting the driver and increasing the risk of accidents.
RFID tags: driving toward 5 cents By Charles J Murray, Technical Editor, Design News
RFID-tag prices haven't yet reached the magical 5-cent mark, but aggressive changes in technology are pushing down their cost and improving performance.
Stacked-chip-scale-package-design guidelines By Mark Gerber, Texas Instruments, Moody Dreiza, Amkor Technology
Design optimization helps to avoid manufacturing problems, to maximize product performance, and to achieve lowest packaging cost.
FROM EDN EUROPE: Capacitive touch sensors fulfill early promise By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor
Capacitive proximity sensors embody an old concept that today's IC technologies promise to deliver. Vendors vie to win over new markets in the automotive, consumer, and industrial markets using methods that combine traditional analogue with the best of contemporary digital techniques.
