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01 April 2007
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News & Analysis
After skyrocketing to the top of mainland China's fabless industry last year, MP3 chip designer Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd could be a candidate for one-chip wonder.
Rambus Inc. and a group of leading academics have set a high-water mark in bringing fast chip-to-chip links into the era of low-power design.
Wireless chipmakers have unleashed a barrage of similar-sounding products for cellular handsets that offer simultaneous support for Bluetooth and WLANs.
Morris Chang of TSMC cites two strategies foundries need to develop to remain profitable in the CE era.
The Continua Health Alliance is gearing up to announce a suite of technical specifications and field trials for connected medical systems and services.
A team of UCSB researchers led by Shuji Nakamura has created a low-threshold-current, non-polar blue-violet laser diode that it says could replace the c-plane violet laser diodes used by Blu-ray and HD DVD.
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With Darwinian economics pushing IC companies to shed fat and focus on delivering core value, budding outsourcing partnerships like the one between Oki Electric Industry Co. and Faraday Technology Corp. may offer a clue to the strategies that some of Japan's larger companies might pursue.
Some of the same engineers who helped create power consumption standards for PCs and printers are turning their attention to network gear and consumer electronics.
HP Lab and a trio of academic labs have scored advances that will make it easier to use nanowires as a replacement for lithography in semiconductor manufacturing, potentially taking chipmaking to the angstrom scale.
Current FPGA synthesis, placement and routing tools are written for hardware designers, not software programmers. A new generation of ESL C-language compilers is attempting to bridge the gap.
Startup PA Semi is shipping chip samples that demonstrate its claim of taking the PowerPC architecture's power consumption to new lows for a range of embedded markets.
Spreading its wings into new markets, Xilinx Inc. is shipping a line of high-end FPGAs that are optimized for high-performance DSP applications.
WLAN chip vendor Atheros Communications Inc. is expanding into Bluetooth with a single-chip offering tuned for PCs.
Three entities—IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Sematech—have separately disclosed breakthroughs in the development of high-k dielectrics and metal gates for use in advanced gate stack applications in logic designs.
NEC Display Solutions is offering a solar-powered system that will support all of the company's flat-panel LCD monitors.
NXP Semiconductors wants to leverage the complementary aspects of Bluetooth networks and wireless LANs in a Nexperia platform that lets mobile handsets simultaneously utilize Bluetooth and WLAN capabilities.
After nearly five years of development, Spansion Inc. is pushing its 4bit-per-cell MirrorBit flash memory technology into production this quarter in devices with densities ranging from 256Mbits to 2Gbits.
PLX Technology Inc. has rolled out three new chips that expand its line of PCIe switches to 13 devices.
World Wide Packets Inc. has launched a chassis-sized service aggregation switch, the LightningEdge 3300, which is the company's first switch to support 10Gbps Ethernet links.
The FlexRay communications system has become part of a broad range of activities and initiatives.
Designed to either increase accident avoidance or reduce crash severity, ADAS is touted by automotive analysts as the top new technology for 2010. ADAS applications use various sensors to collect physical data about the vehicle and its surroundings.
This article discusses an effective strategy to drive the loads of a door module.
This article lays out the basic steps that lead to a robust network topology definition for FlexRay applications.
Designers should consider BOM, cost, power board size and time-to-market when creating a new design. Hezi Saar gives tips and tricks about the factors in selecting an FPGA to implement the design.
A recent paper by Edward Lee (The Problem with Threads) argues that multithreaded application programming, as commonly practiced, is a flawed methodology that invites a range of nasty, hard-to-identify bugs.
Technical Features
The market is promising for next-generation PMPs if content and advanced features will take center stage in its development. (PDF file)
This article details the design of a Bluetooth data logger that takes data from an austriamicrosystems AS1530 12bit ADC via an MCU and a Bluetooth link to a PC, which collects the data in a spreadsheet. (PDF file)
For optimum performance, high-brightness LEDs should be driven by a current source rather than by a voltage source. (PDF file)
The use of CESoP over EPON enables voice services for residential and business applications. CESoP may be used to provide fractional, leased line or private T1/E1 service for business customers or Nx64kbps voice channels over POTS lines for residential customers. (PDF file)
With advancements in integration and switch design, front-end components can make incremental integration steps; however, with transceivers, a fully optimized multimode architecture can be enabled. (PDF file)
When using multiple switching regulators is appropriate, multiphase synchronization offers clear benefits, including reduced EMI. As for the EMI benefits of SSFM, it depends on the bandwidths of interest. SSFM is not a substitute for proper design, but it may offer the improvement that achieves EMC compliance. (PDF file)
Consumers are faced with a plethora of interconnecting cables. Even if they buy wireless-enabled products, it is rarely simple to set up and invoke the appropriate wireless connections. Also, a resolution mismatch often occurs between the content and the rendering device. (PDF file)
Identifying new applications for 'old' consolidated technologies and reliable competitive manufacturing techniques as well as the integration of such fields as medicine, pharmaceutics, biology and electronics, will pave the way for technologies that ultimately improve the quality of human life. (PDF file)
Software-defined communications test and platforms form an approach that has the flexibility to help test engineers meet requirements today and in the future. (PDF file)
This article examines how scalable verification, design for verification, and strategies that include abstraction, assertion-based techniques, and improved debugging methods address the fundamental challenges facing design teams. (PDF file)
Opinion
The science of twenty-first century security is an entirely different proposition—a new paradigm.
As RF and microwave products enter the market, shortcomings in frequency management crop up. Here are pointers on how to correctly specify filters.
Interview
Larry Hornbeck, Emmy winner for his invention of the digital micromirror device, told EE Times that TI has still more applications up its sleeve for the digital micromirror.
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