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01 January 2008
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News & Analysis
Intel Corp. is partly responsible for Vietnam's meteoric rise in investors' hot list. Ever since the chipmaker announced two years back that it would allocate $300 million (which later increased to $1 billion) for the establishment of an assembly and test facility in the country, Vietnam has been making the headlines all throughout 2007.
The slowing economic climate, aging Japanese workforce, and declining pool of skilled IT and business university graduates are challenging the country's executives to rethink outsourcing.
D-Wave Systems Inc. collaborated with Google to demonstrate how quantum computers can perform image recognition tasks at speeds rivaling human capabilities.
A tour around Stockholm, Sweden reveals a hotbed of cellphone developments--some of it disruptive, some of it in the category of technology searching for a solution.
Seongnam city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea is making progress toward its vision of becoming the country's IT hub. With a population of one million, the city adjacent to Seoul has transformed into a venture valley swarming with IT companies.
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AirDio has obtained the patent of the RF Integrated System module, enabling ubiquitous communication that users are demanding.
As multimedia chips are increasingly being used in communications, imaging, entertainment, security and computing beyond mobiles, fabless companies should prepare themselves to create complex terminals to address the convergence trend.
Among Chinese IC design companies, Shanghai Jade Technologies Co. Ltd is unique. While the majority of local IC design companies focus on cost-control advantages and target the middle- and low-end markets, Jade aims for high-end products.
SiliconFile Technologies' Baek-Kyu Shin, president and CEO, talks about 'Windmill Strategy' and the outlook for CMOS image sensor market in 2008.
The success of SpringSoft Inc. the leading EDA player in the Asia-Pacific, demonstrates a very special and precious story. Martin Lu, chairman and CEO, attributes their success to two important factors: right product positioning and the realization of a designer-centered concept.
Expert IC designer Chu Yiren has achieved his dream of setting-up a successful IC business in China.
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute has combined vehicle, battery and information technologies into an electric car that has been launched as the Ecooter.
The Image Optics System Division of the Industrial Technology Research Institute pioneered in 3D display R&D ten years ago. Now ITRI has launched the patented micro-retardation film (µ-retarder) technology, which it describes as the solution for achieving real 3D display at the lowest cost.
Mtron Co. Ltd is a start-up company that produces flash memory SSDs. According to senior executive vice president and co-founder Young-Hyun Bae "Mtron's SSD are the world's best in terms of performance."
Pentamicro Inc. has recently introduced MultiStream II, which the company claims is the first multichannel H.264 codec targeted at Korea's security market. H.264 technology provides double compression rates compared with MPEG-4, boosts today's DMB, VoDs and IP STBs by enabling transfer of high-definition (HD) images through networks.
After many years of waiting, the industry chain of TD-SCDMA in China has started to mature. The local RF IC manufacturers are a very important link in the TD-SCDMA supply chain. One of these manufacturers is RDA Microelectronic (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Zhang Liang, VP for development and definition of products project shared his views on issues related to RF technology in China.
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is a vital consideration in designing electronic devices. In China however, despite the huge growth of the electronics industry, EMC design and validation are not given much attention. This sorry state of affairs is something that Wu Weibing, chief EMC expert of start-up company Shenzhen SES-Tech Co. Ltd, hopes to ameliorate.
Cars of the future will have leading-edge electronic technologies integrated into them that will improve driving comfort and entertainment, opening the door to the so-called "4C" industry and giving new hope for Taiwan's electronic industry.
Technical Features
ASSP solutions for stepper motor drive electronics integrate all necessary driver, feedback and correction functions while implementing sensorless control. (PDF file)
Custom integrated SoC designs are a great way to replace multiple individual ICs and support circuitry. The benefits are many: you save space, you save power, you save money. However, there is a challenge to overcome. (PDF file)
Using capacitors to AC-couple an LVDS data link provides many benefits, such as level shifting, removing common-mode errors, and protecting against input-voltage fault conditions. This article will help designers select the proper capacitor and the termination topology for this design approach. Common troubleshooting issues are also discussed. (PDF file)
Steve Peck of PolyFuel Inc. describes how the combination of technology readiness and market dynamics suggest that there is a strong likelihood that portable electronics will be the first mass market for fuel cells, and the fuel cells will likely be DMFC. (PDF file)
Chen Feng of Rohde & Schwarz China describes in this article describes how to establish an automation EMI test system, emphasize the problems during the test and the solution and how to configure the system and parameters correctly. (PDF file)
As the lines marking the responsibilities of HW/SW teams and who is responsible for implementation and debug are getting blurred, new methodologies must be adopted to effectively validate an entire IP or silicon solution. The ability to efficiently and optimally design, and perform system-level verification can result in a significant competitive advantage, especially as software solutions become expected deliverables along with complex IP or silicon. (PDF file)
Opinion
The new section of EE Times-Asia will carry market insights, tutorials, how-to design articles and commentaries on critical issues in the analog domain.
Apache's acquisition of Optimal is another clear signal that the EDA industry is adapting to provide designers with tools that allow them to work on the entire system, not just parts that have different physical characteristics.
Interview
Satoru Ito, Renesas Technology Corp. chairman and CEO, shares his views on the development of the MCU market in Asia, and discusses how he will lead the company to further growth.
Vital Signs
Initiatives from wireless operators and a U.S. government mandate are set to more than quadruple the global shipments of mobile handsets equipped with GPS capability from 2006 to 2011.
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