Slideshow: Team readies lunar rover for Google space contest

A German team competing in Google's Lunar X-PRIZE competition plans to land its "Asimov" lunar rover on the surface of the Moon in 2014 in a bid to claim the contest's $20 million grand prize. Read Full Story

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Q&A: Nvidia’s Dally on 3-D ICs, China, cloud computing

Bill Dally (shown), Nvidia’s chief scientist calls for a 3-D memory champion, more U.S. spending on computer research and an Ethernet alternative for data centers. Read Full Story

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Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to be given an IP address and linked to the Internet ... Read Full Story

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Intel's FinFETs are less fin and more triangle

Reverse engineering and analysis consultancy Chipworks Inc. has posted cross-sections of parts of the 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor that has revealed that the FinFETs, which Intel calls tri-gate ... Read Full Story

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Marvell sees return to normalcy following Thai floods

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group said it benefited from supply chain recovery in the wake of last year's devastating floods in Thailand and that it ...

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IHS: DRAM's share of smartphone BoM cut in half

Although DRAM content in smartphones is on the rise, DRAM's share of the average smartphone's bill of materials has fallen by about half over the ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Sanjib.Acharya
If the price fall continues, is there a risk of finding the quality & reliability also to fall in ...

Amkor plans back-end chip facility in South Korea

Semiconductor packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology said it plans to build a state-of-the-art test and packaging facility and global ...

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NASA, SpaceX lower expectations for historic flight to space station

SpaceX and NASA managers sought to dampen expectations in advance of the scheduled launch of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space ...

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ST sues InvenSense alleging patent infringement

STMicrolectronics NV has filed a complaint in the Northern District of California alleging that InvenSense Inc., a supplier of motion tracking ...

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Update: I would have written: "...now running"

Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market

Warren East, CEO of processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc, has said he expects companies making processors based on the ARM cores will take between ...

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Wishful thinking by ARM. Intel already has a price & power competitive Medfield chip for ...

Living virus generates electricity

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs have discovered a way to genetically engineer a living virus to be piezoelectric, enabling ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Sanjib.Acharya
This is an example of real "bug" in electronics! :) How long do they survive?

Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor'

A research team from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Yongin, Korea) has proposed a novel three-terminal device that could overcome ...

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How many more such application of graphene can we expect?...seems endless. Eager to see some ...

NASA, commercial space industy brace for critical test

The upcoming launch of a new rocket to the International Space Station will test NASA's strategy of relying on commercial carriers to launch cargo and ...

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One of the advantages and disadvantages of a free market economy (or mostly free market) is that ...

Weightless standard for IoT outlined in book

Professor William Webb, CTO and cofounder of Neul, has written a 200-page book outlining the Weightless standard for machine-to-machine communications ...

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Foundries' 28-nm capacity build keeping Applied in the black

Applied Materials' fiscal second quarter showing was driven largely by strong sales to foundries that are scrambling to add 28-nm capacity.

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Engineering Ferrari

Nothing but pasta could possibly be more representative of Italian sumptuousness than Ferrari, the sexy luxury race car brand that made its debut in ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Rick DeMeis
Hi Sylvie, Readers of this article would probably be interested in a story I did for Design News ...

Gary Smith: The man who “cried ESL & virtual prototype” gets the last laugh

Many years ago and in a Galaxy that seems far far away, my buddy and journalism mentor Richard Goering teamed up to provide EDA coverage for EE ...

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I'd vote for Gary. Gary Smith for President. And he's got entertainment value, too.

Gearing Up for DAC – Verification demos

This entry is the first in the what to see at DAC blogs. It includes listing about the demos that companies will be showing in the area of ...

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Electric Imp's cool versus Cambridge's Neul in IoT

Comparing a couple of leaders in the Internet of Things domain - Electric Imp Inc. and Neul Ltd. - shows the same bases get covered but with different ...

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"However, there is an argument that if IoT is going to be truly successful the nodes will become so ...

"Hi, I’m your data; can you hear me now?"

Extracting insight from mounds of data may benefit from using old techniques

post comment 6 comments last comment David Ashton
Very much so, I used to deal with multisite modems on a polling system and got to know when there ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – May 16th

Mathworks, MIPS, Imperas, Cadence, Sigrity, Kilopass, EVE, Carbon and ams made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

Some naysayers argue that China can't innovate and that the Chinese economy is bound to "hit the wall" like Japan's export-driven economy did in the ...

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It took awhile for the motive all of this positive spin and coverage on China to sink in on me. EET ...

Plastic doesn't pollute, people do

Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but a tradeshow held last week in Italy aimed to mold a different ...

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The problem gets even worse when it comes to so-called "bio-plastics" because then people think it's ...

Test equipment market snapshot

Grab your lunch and head to Frost&Sullivan’s webinar tomorrow, May 16th on the test equipment market.

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Design Considerations in Adding USB Communications to Embedded Applications	4/22/2012
Choosing the Optimal Source Measurement Unit Instrument for Your Test and Measurement Application	4/23/2012
Redefining a New State-of-the-Art in Microampere Current-Sense Amplifiers	4/1/2012
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Fundamentals of Instrument Control	5/17/2012
Fundamentals of Energy Harvesting	3/28/2012
Fundamentals of Increasing SoC Performance and Efficiency	3/2/2012
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Wizard Filters for all using the built-in hardware digital filter in a programmable SoC	3/8/2012
Hardware Machine Learning	2/29/2012
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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

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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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Collection of interesting resources on C/C++ programming

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All about PVS-Studio

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PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C/C++/C++11 applications. The PVS-Studio tool integrates into the Visual Studio

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