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01 July 2007
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News & Analysis
Europe's three-year-old Organic LEDs for ICT and Lighting Applications (OLLA) project said in May that it had prototyped a white-OLED light source with an efficacy of 25lumens/W and a lifetime of more than 5,000hrs from an initial brightness of 1,000cd/m².
Java giants Motorola, Nokia and Sun Microsystems are plowing separate paths for the future of cellphone software. The widening divergence in their commercial Java products—and differences of opinion about how to keep Java open—threatens to fracture the broad community of Java developers.
Taiwan system vendors are descending on the market en masse. Most expect a spike in demand next year for 802.16e products as carriers in the United States, Europe and Asia throw the switch on broadband wireless networks and as Intel Corp. begins to ship its Wi-Fi/WiMAX module for PCs.
With notebooks edging out desktops as the dominant platform in client computing, AMD and Intel are pulling neck-and-neck in the race to define their core high-end silicon.
To counter TSMC's 'winner-take-all' game plan, European foundries are looking to turn a profit in niche markets where specialized technologies may give them an edge.
Pure-play IP companies are struggling to close deals in China and hoping that dogged persistence will pay off in the long term, believing it will one day be an epicenter of chip design.
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OEMs may soon be designing smart image sensors into real-time vision systems that are cheap enough to become standard equipment on automobiles worldwide.
By integrating its tools with existing EDA tool sets, SoftMEMS claims to be uniquely positioned to enable EEs to co-design electronics-with-MEMS chips from the comfort of their familiar EDA platform.
TI has introduced a step-up converter designed to help designers cost-effectively use the non-standard voltages from alternative power sources to recharge the core Li-ion battery in a portable electronic device.
With Broadcom Corp. throwing its hat in the ring, 10Gbit Ethernet may be ready to move from the big switch that aggregates data-center traffic down to the mainstream server that generates and processes it.
Seeking to reduce the cost and cycle times of IC designs, Novelics Inc. will roll a Web-based compiler technology that supports its line of intellectual property cores for embedded memory applications.
To optimize a system design and solve thermal problems, an engineer has to look at elements other than connector design that can help draw heat away from the connector interface.
Tapping into the explosive growth of multicore devices, CriticalBlue has announced plans to add a multicore development capability to its Cascade coprocessor synthesis suite, which accelerates embedded software by generating programmable, application-optimized coprocessors for implementation in ASICs, FPGAs and SoC designs.
Passive optical network IC player iamba Networks Inc. is rolling out subsystems for the line- and network-termination sides of optical networks, emphasizing board and packaged system designs more than individual chipsets.
Altera Corp. has officially rolled out a line of entry-level FPGAs built to support Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express and serial RapidIO transceivers at the lowest possible price for a programmable part.
Multicore processors help embedded designers achieve higher system integration with new IDEs that enable the development of real-time and human-directed portions of an application within tools.
Making the user interface for a single device easy, slick, fun and fast is a challenge. If you have multiple devices that need to cooperate, the challenge increases dramatically. This article gives tips on designing user interfaces for cooperating devices.
A more efficient and reliable alternative to resistive touchscreens is a thin, transparent, capacitive sensor touchscreen that embedded users can place over any viewable surface for input and navigation.
Improvements in MRAM will help widen the spectrum of potential applications, ensuring a greater push into the embedded-microcontroller market.
Today's DFM process typically includes a disparate range of disciplines, as well as the daunting task of coordinating the flow of information. Here are some tips to implement effective data management.
A pivotal question for the current crop of startups is whether to offer their processors as flexible, general-purpose chips or as highly specialized, application-specific solutions.
Technical Features
WiMAX systems for customer premises equipment and base transceiver stations each have advantages and disadvantages that the designer must weigh against the system's goal. (PDF file)
In the future, sensory technology integration will continue to mature, and the number of sensors that a robot can efficiently process will achieve a growth curve similar to Moore's Law. (PDF file)
This article shows how to solve complexity issues arising from the measurement of 4-port RF devices and ensure that RF test system calibration is accurate, reliable and repeatable. (PDF file)
Many modern electronic systems now require some form of current measurement to improve power dissipation, efficiency and reliability. They range from LED driving to portable equipment to power supplies of all sizes. (PDF file)
By using model-based design, engineers can evaluate alternatives and correct problems much earlier in the design process, reducing the time and cost required for development. (PDF file)
MEMS microphones are more robust against heat, RF and vibration than electret microphones. It also permits fully automated SMT manufacturing, resulting in greater design freedom and system cost advantages. (PDF file)
MCU firmware and peripherals give designers the flexibility to implement existing system-management functions, as well as ways to integrate these functions. While there are advantages and disadvantages to using specialized hardware vs. integrated MCU solutions, the systems provide alternatives to current approaches that bring benefits such as cost savings and functionality improvements. (PDF file)
Although viewed to be competing standards, PXI and LXI in switching and instrumentation applications are sufficiently different so that leveraging existing PXI into LXI can produce highly flexible solutions. (PDF file)
IPTV system deployments usually drive major upgrades to the network infrastructure and need new test and monitoring technologies to check and maintain that infrastructure. (PDF file)
Opinion
It would be interesting to see how the new BenQ ODM, Jia Da Corp., will find its groove in the ODM game that has changed so much over the years.
As vendors offer tools and technologies that accelerate and enhance testing, equipment manufacturers will be positioned to shatter the innovation barrier.
Interview
Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi weighs in on the chip industry, the private-equity steamroller, the "fab lite" model and the company's place in it all.
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