| 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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| Low power design for analog/mixed-signal IP
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2008-06-24 |
| Power reduction and management techniques using multiple clock and power domains, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling and power gating are effective for digital circuits but for analog design, lowering power consumption must be considered early in the design phase. |
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| Virtualization spec brings PCIe to wider systems
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2008-06-13 |
| The PCI-SIG recently released a set of standards that extends PCIe for a wide range of computer and communication systems. The I/O Virtualization specifications open the door to new ways to roll out shared networking capabilities for servers, and communications gear |
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| Firms partner on network attached storage solutions
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2008-06-06 |
| Applied Micro Circuits Corp. and Silicon Image Inc. has announced a working alliance to provide Network Attached Storage reference designs based on AMCC Power Architecture-based processors and Silicon Image's Serial ATA controllers and port multipliers. |
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| Midsize motherboards branch out
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2008-06-02 |
| New product introductions of the past six months show how fragmented the market is for embedded motherboards and single-board computers, particularly when it comes to small formats. In the midsize realm, ranging from about 40-50-inch2, however, the activity centers primarily on 6.7-inch x 6.7-inch Mini-ITX and 5.75-inch x 8-inch EBX motherboards, though the boards themselves are diverse. |
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| Farewell, general-purpose PCIe
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2008-06-02 |
| The Swiss Army knife, one-size-fits-all approach to PCIe switch design is over. The transition to PCIe Gen2 coincides with a coalescing of market forces to render general-purpose PCIe switches obsolete |
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| 10Gbit FCoE drives data center convergence
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2008-04-17 |
| The release of the first products for Fibre Channel over 10GbE fuels a broad industry drive to run networking, storage and clustering traffic over a single, mainstream pipe in tomorrow's data centers. |
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| Virtualization: The Swiss Army knife of networking?
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2008-04-16 |
| Startup Neterion Inc. has rolled out a chip that lets systems split one 10GbE link into as many as 16 virtual connections. |
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| CMOS harmonic oscillator eliminates quartz crystals
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2008-04-08 |
| Mobius Microsystems Inc. has unveiled its CMOS Harmonic Oscillator (CHO) technology that eliminates the need for quartz crystals in many applications. By integrating an oscillator onto an ordinary CMOS chip, the company claims to have removed the last moving part from electronics circuitry. |
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| FPGA boosts parallel computing research
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2008-03-18 |
| The work is nearly done on an FPGA-based computer to help researchers find a parallel programming model for the next-generation multicore processors. |
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