| Private IC firms quietly lay off staff
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2008-12-08 |
| Privately held companies, unbound by regulations requiring them to report layoffs, have not gone unscathed as they too, have shed staff—albeit more quietly. |
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| Basic and advanced oscilloscope triggering
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2008-12-03 |
| This article starts by discussing the typical architecture of a trigger circuit within an oscilloscope. Basic trigger modes will be presented and finally, some of the advanced triggering capabilities available on the market will be discussed. |
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| Interface market continues to evolve
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2008-12-01 |
| The global market for interface products may exceed $10 billion by 2013, up from its current value at $6.2 billion, according to Databeans. |
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| USB interface grabs a higher version
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2008-11-19 |
| The commonly used USB interface has now been upgraded to ver 3.0 at a developers' conference where some companies announced product plans for the new specifications with data rates that could hit 400MBps. |
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| Alereon buys Stonestreet One's wireless USB tech
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2008-11-05 |
| Alereon Inc. has acquired certain Wireless USB assets and the associated development team of Stonestreet One. |
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| Chipmakers pack multimedia functions in processors
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2008-10-01 |
| Semiconductor vendors tailoring video chips for the consumer market have taken integration to the next level. As price pressure from consumers persists in the flat-panel, DTV, DVD player, notebook and mobile phone sectors, chip companies are taking a cue from OEMs to provide devices that pack more video functions to minimize costs. |
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| Sarnoff Europe is newest member of TSMC DCA
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2008-09-29 |
| Sarnoff Europe has joined the TSMC Design Center Alliance. |
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| Analysis: Communications processors to hit dead end?
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2008-09-19 |
| The era of the communications processor is winding down as designers increasingly turn to multicore processors to perform these functions. |
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| Debate on flash memory's future heats up
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2008-09-08 |
| Storage gurus from IBM and EMC spent much of the Labor Day weekend debating the future of flash memory drives in servers and storage systems. |
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| UWB connections extend to handsets
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2008-09-01 |
| UWB technology uniquely offers a handset the potential to wirelessly connect peripheral devices previously reserved for wired connections. In particular, high-bandwidth connections to peripherals such as external HDD and displays require UWB's high performance level to function effectively. |
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| Group boosts viability of PCIe standard
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2008-08-20 |
| The HyperTransport Consortium speeds up to boost both its chip-to-chip interconnect as well as a board-to-board version that has yet to gain market traction. This is in relation to PCI-SIG's next big leap in defining the PCIe 3.0 standard |
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| FPGAs are all set for next process nodes
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2008-08-01 |
| Altera Corp. today is expected to become the first FPGA vendor to launch a family of 40nm FPGAs. In addition, Altera will announce the 40nm HardCopy IV structured ASICs, as well as corresponding software tools for both device types. The families promise to enable a new class of single-chip, multicore and related complex devices. |
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| Kontron releases updated UGM spec
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2008-07-28 |
| Kontron has revised the Universal Graphics Module (UGM) standard for long-term available and custom scalable high-end PEG graphics. |
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| Samsung, Sun tie up to enable flash drive stability
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2008-07-22 |
| Samsung Electronics has worked with server maker Sun Microsystems to develop a new 8Gbit single-level-cell design for computer servers that it claims increases the number of read/write cycles for NAND flash memory chips five-fold. |
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| Enable DSP co-processing in FPGAs
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2008-07-02 |
| Today's ever increasing demand for high-speed communication and superfast computing in support of triple-play apps is creating new challenges for those who need to draw together a multitude of standards, components and networking equipment. |
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