Counterfeit parts putting military at risk

Counterfeit parts are increasingly finding their way into mission critical military and healthcare equipment, with the number of fake electronic parts soaring dramatically over the past couple of ... Read Full Story

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Rebuilding America: Would Kurzarbeit work here?

The German system of "Kurzarbeit" (shorter work week) along with a demanding vocational training program have sustained its manufacturing base and much of its economy amid a growing European debt ... Read Full Story

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Ted Tewksbury’s IDT Makeover

Ted Tewksbury (shown), a veteran analog engineer, joined IDT as CEO on April Fool’s Day in 2008. Since then, he has become the primary architect of IDT's new strategy that was undertaken without ... Read Full Story

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Microsoft: Windows 8 on ARM to be 'no-compromise' experience

Using Windows 8 on ARM devices “out of the box” will feel the same as on x86/64 PCs, and both versions will be released at the same time, Microsoft has said. Read Full Story

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News and Analysis

News & Analysis

Darkhorse litho technologies stay in NGL race

The continually slipping target date for insertion of extreme ultraviolet lithography into volume production has enabled several other intriguing ...

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If only a small fraction of the chip layers get multiple patterning or double patterning, and most ...

Renesas rolls combo LTE/3G baseband

Renesas Mobile announced one of the first integrated multimode LTE baseband processors aimed at enabling $150-300 4G devices.

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The acquisition of the Modem Design Team (~1000 people) of Nokia by Renesas Electronics in CY2010 ...

Update: New chip propels Intel into data plane

Intel is sampling Cave Creek, a chip that paired with the latest Xeon aims to win sockets from the likes of Cavium, Freescale and NetLogic in packet ...

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Altera, Xilinx Bet on High Frequency Trading

The market for FPGA boards in high frequency financial trading is expanding both in size and in its role as a strategic technology test bed for FPGA ...

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TEL joins CEA-Leti programs on DSA, maskless litho

Tokyo Electron Ltd., a supplier of IC and display production equipment, has joined two collaborative lithography research projects being organized by ...

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Energy Conversion Devices files for bankruptcy

Solar equipment maker Energy Conversion Devices said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced plans to sale several assets, ...

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Pretty sad...another US company that can't compete with Chinese government...is anyone left in solar ...

Analyst ranks chip markets by 2012 growth prediction

With numerous changes from 2011, some 27 IC product areas out of 33 defined by WSTS will see market growth in 2012, according to market research firm ...

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MediaTek launches platform for low-end Android phones

Fabless chip company MediaTek has announced the availability of a hardware and software platform for the creation of mid- and entry-level Android ...

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Mediatek is very successful to actually make the cheaper and performing designs for the 2G ...

Firm claims patent infringement by Intel, IBM, Micron

Atomic Precision Systems, a little-known semiconductor equipment vendor specializing in deposition technology, has filed a patent infringement suit ...

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I think these days technology lawyers are more busy than anyone else. The courts are busy dealing ...

TI announces five radio combo chip

Texas Instruments has announced the next generation of its WiLink combo chips, the WiLink 8.0 product family; a collection of 45-nanometer single-chip ...

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Guys like CSR will eventually get acquired or might just become extinct. Looks like all the domains ...

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Opinion

Multicore madness

Here’s one speed limit that’s heavily enforced.

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In a typical control application we could successfully use a 6 core SOC where each core was ...

Memristor 'brouhaha' redux

A battle of mathematical papers has broken out at arXiv.org on the topic of the memristor, which may be part of the future of non-volatile memory ...

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Battle of research papers! Pretty cool, doesn't happen too often as academics usually try not to ...

Expect aftershocks from Synopsys' Magma acquisition

Synopsys' surprise acquisition of Magma Design Automation absolutely requires a response from the rest of the EDA market.

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It is hard to believe that something as old as Spice is causing such a dramatic change in EDA ...

Meet the authors of 'CHIPS 2020' at ISSCC

several of the authors of CHIPS 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanotechnology will be on hand at a launch for the book at the ISSCC upcoming in San ...

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SoCs: Unsung heroes of the smartphone revolution

The smartphone revolution enabled by the convergence of voice, data and video in a single mobile device wouldn't have been possible without the SoC, ...

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With SiP, you need to wait for all two or three chips to arrive, but with SoC they effectively all ...

Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...

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Chip design is one of the industries that rely heavily on the accuracy of tools for success. EDA is ...

Japan Inc. faces choppy seas

The blueprint for proposed merger/joint venture plan has fingerprints of Japan’s bureaucrats at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MEITI) all ...

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"There is still a very big captive Japanese market, but the next battle could be battery/hybrid ...

APEC becomes big, and we're there

Power is every engineer's concern, and it's the focus of this event

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Stand by---I'm working on a follow-up article fom APEC 2012 on the Picor active EMI filter and ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 8th

Element14, Verific, Coventor, Silicon Frontline, Cadence, Breker and Elliptic made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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I always carry a Leatherman Squirt ES4 electrician multit-tool. Wonderful keychain sized pocket tool ...

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Designing Polyphase DPD Solutions with 28-nm FPGAs	1/1/2012
New Class of Nanopower Analog ICs Enable Sub-1V, Micropower Current Sensing Techniques	1/30/2012
SymPol Transceivers are Immune to Cross-Wire Faults	10/1/2010
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Fundamentals of Low-Power Microcontroller Design	12/14/2011
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March 26, 2012 DESIGN West 2012: March 26-29, 2012

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March 28, 2012 Sensors in Design - A DESIGN West Summit

March 28, 2012 DesignMed - March 28, 2012 at DESIGN West

March 29, 2012 Black Hat Summit, March 29, 2012 at DESIGN West

March 28, 2012 The 2012 Android Summit, A DESIGN West Summit

March 27, 2012 MultiCore DevCon - A DESIGN West Summit

March 27, 2012 EDN's Designing with LEDs: March 27, 2012

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Career Path Confusion: How to Enter Medical Electronics Field? With IC background.

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