• Semiconductor Innovation in an Investment Constrained Economy

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    The current innovation climate in the semiconductor industry is alive and well but entrepreneurs have to adjust to the realities of the current economic situation and investment trends. The world's governmental economic development agencies have always looked at Silicon Valley with envy and paid big money to try to find the key which would unlock the secrets

  • Geo Semiconductor

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    Geo Semiconductor was officially formed in May 2009 as a fabless chip company through the acquisition of major IC business lines and key pieces of the IP portfolio of Silicon Optix, including the Realta and the Geo ICs, patents, inventory, software, development systems, customers and brands.

  • Intel Reorganization Shuffle, Consolidates Architecture Unit

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    Intel went into reorganization mode as as the head of its largest business unit leaves the Santa Clara company to become a top manager at data storage company EMC.

  • Semiconductor Stock Price Rally: What Next?

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    Recently, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) raised its third-quarter guidance. The company anticipates revenues to be about $9 billion, versus its previous forecast of $8.5 billion. Gross margins are expected to be about 53%, with more upside than downside likely to the projection.

  • Symwave

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    Founded in 2001, Symwave has quietly forged ahead as a fabless chip company headquartered in the Los Angeles area with a line of next generation USB and FireWire Serial PHY devices.

  • ChipStart Expands Global Operations

    Updated: 2012-11-30 19:59:34
    ChipStart, a value-added reseller of analog and digital semiconductor IP has expanded global operations and has named several EDA veterans to the team.

  • Open IP Development Tools (Sonics, The Official Blog - Pascal Chauvet, Sonics)

    Updated: 2012-11-30 14:43:00
    How much time have you wasted trying to understand software tools by deciphering the logic of their creator? I always find it very frustrating to be limited by features and tool capabilities that do not do exactly what I want, or which do not work at all with my other applications. We are engineers! We can learn and adapt, but we often want to be able to extend and improve the tools we are using. Why is that not always possible?View the full article HERE

  • Fable: The Commercialisation Of Inspiration

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:23:59
    : Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Fable : The Commercialisation Of Inspiration By David Manners on November 29, 2012 2:23 PM 2 Comments No TrackBacks There was once a company which did something remarkably . clever When the whole of the semiconductor industry made transistors out of germanium , the company made a transistor out of . silicon What's more the company got the silicon transistor to market in the same year it was . invented This gave the company a three year lead on the . market Moral : Commercialisation is as important as . inspiration Tweet Categories Fable No TrackBacks TrackBack URL : http : www.electronicsweekly.com cgi-bin mt mt-tb.cgi 223567 2 Comments georgegrimes-ti-com.myopenid.com November 29, 2012 5:52 PM Reply That would have

  • Texas Instruments ADS1293 Analog Front End Supports 5 Leads with Single AFE

    Updated: 2012-11-29 13:15:36
    Texas Instruments introduced their ADS1293 analog-front-end (AFE) IC. The TI ADS1293 can support one to five leads with a single AFE. It reduces the size, power consumption and overall cost of scalable medical instrumentation systems. The AFE is available now in a 5mm x 5mm QFN package. It is priced at $5.50 in 1,000-unit quantities. [...]

  • BT Demos 10Gig Broadband

    Updated: 2012-11-29 01:31:03
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners BT Demos 10Gig Broadband By David Manners on November 29, 2012 1:31 AM No Comments No TrackBacks BT has demonstrated 10Gbps broadband using its XGPON technology on the existing fibre-optic line from the Cornish company Arcol to BT's Truro . exchange XGPON standing for tens of gigabits on a passive optical network was developed by BT and ZTE of . China The Arcol line is currently being used for 330Mbps communications and one purpose of the demo is to show how existing lines can handle significantly faster . speeds The average UK broadband speed is . 12Mbps The EU is making significant sums available to install faster broadband across . Europe Tweet Categories Telecoms No TrackBacks TrackBack URL : http :

  • Alcatel sues Apple

    Updated: 2012-11-28 14:52:16
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Alcatel sues Apple By David Manners on November 28, 2012 2:52 PM 1 Comment No TrackBacks If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel , then the penultimate refuge for failing companies is the law court . A case opened yesterday in a court in San Diego in which Alcatel-Lucent is suing Apple for around . 200m Alcatel-Lucent alleges that Apple infringed its video compression patents in iPods , iPhones , iPads and MacBooks going back to 2005. Alcatel-Lucent is seeking reasonable royalties' for what would have been seven years of payments under a negotiated settlement which it estimates at just under . 200m Alcatel-Lucent has been trying to make money from its patent portfolio , which has been estimated to be worth

  • Ten Best US Engineering Schools

    Updated: 2012-11-28 01:38:32
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Ten Best US Engineering Schools By David Manners on November 28, 2012 1:38 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Thanks to US News and World Report for this one the ten best US engineering : schools MIT Stanford UCLA Berkeley Georgia Tech California Institute of Technology University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Carnegie Mellon University University of Michigan Ann Arbor University of Texas Austin Cockrell Cornell Tweet Categories Ten Best No TrackBacks TrackBack URL : http : www.electronicsweekly.com cgi-bin mt mt-tb.cgi 223909 Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info Comments You may use HTML tags for style Subscribe to comments by e-mail Get the eNewsletter Sign up for the weekly Mannerisms eNewsletter

  • ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now (Functional Verification Blog - Team Specman, Cadence)

    Updated: 2012-11-27 09:29:00
    Design And Reuse Search IP IP Based SoC News Industry Articles Blogs Videos IP-SOC 2012 Login Join SDIO 3.0 Device USB 3.0 Serdes MIPI Browse Silicon IPs by Category Silicon IP Vendors Browse Verification IPs by Category Verification IPs Vendors Wanted IPs IP Analytics Industry Expert Blogs ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP ABVIP Available Now Functional Verification Blog Team Specman , Cadence Nov . 27, 2012 As anyone who has worked with ARM's AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions a k a the ACE protocol knows , there are a ton of different configuration options and operational scenarios available to the designer . nbsp Of course , this flexibility and power presents a significant verification challenge . nbsp Hence , building on the success of our ACE Universal Verification Component UVC

  • Piezo-Electric Flat Panel Display Developed

    Updated: 2012-11-27 01:21:19
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Piezo-Electric Flat Panel Display Developed By David Manners on November 27, 2012 1:21 AM No Comments No TrackBacks AQ new flat panel visual display for electronic signals has been developed by General Telephones and Electronic Laboratories in the US So , over 50 years ago , starts a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of April 12 th 1961. A new flat panel visual display for electronic signals has been developed by General Telephones and Electronic Laboratories in the US So , over 50 years ago , starts a story in Electronics Weekly's edition of April 12 th 1961. The device consists of a thin flat panel of piezo-electric ceramic material coated with and electro-luminescent . substance Voltage pulses applied to the

  • Alliances, by Tsuyoshi Kawanishi

    Updated: 2012-11-23 14:18:48
    , Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Alliances , by Tsuyoshi Kawanishi By David Manners on November 23, 2012 2:18 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Alliances are the name of the game in an industry where no company can do everything . The great former CEO of Toshiba Semiconductor , Tsuyoshi Kawanishi , points out in his book Chip Management that successful alliances need certain ingredients : Alliances should be thought of as friendships not marriages . Friendships are based on trust and respect . The secret of success in international co-operation is to give six and take . four Alliances should be thought of as multiplication not addition In order to co-operate companies should first learn how to compete Don't think in terms of how the world looks from the

  • Europe's Technology Champion

    Updated: 2012-11-23 01:55:08
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Europe's Technology Champion By David Manners on November 23, 2012 1:55 AM No Comments No TrackBacks I don't know what the European electronics industry has done to deserve Neelie Kroes , but she's the best thing to happen to it since a previous generation of industrial leaders Hagmeister , Knorr and Pistorio rescued the European semiconductor industry from the jaws of . oblivion Kroes is enthusiastic about the potential of the European electronics industry . We can build an electronics powerhouse here in Europe , says Kroes who is pushing for a 2014-2020 budget of 80 billion euro for . technology I pointed to anomalies like Europe's biggest IC manufacturer is the only top ten manufacturer in the world which doesn't

  • Fable: A Sorry Succession

    Updated: 2012-11-22 14:16:25
    : Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Fable : A Sorry Succession By David Manners on November 22, 2012 2:16 PM 1 Comment No TrackBacks There was once a great electronics company . It became the world No.1 in manufacturing vacuum tubes and followed that trick by becoming a top ten transistor . manufacturer It followed that up by becoming a top ten IC manufacturer and CMOS . pioneer However the genius founder was succeeded by a less than genius son and the company fell on hard times in the 1980s and was . sold Moral : Successions are tricky Tweet Categories Fable No TrackBacks TrackBack URL : http : www.electronicsweekly.com cgi-bin mt mt-tb.cgi 223562 1 Comment pablobleyer November 22, 2012 4:11 PM Reply My mom bought a Chinese-made RCA meat grinder

  • 5G To Use 700MHz

    Updated: 2012-11-22 01:18:41
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners 5G To Use 700MHz By David Manners on November 22, 2012 1:18 AM No Comments No TrackBacks 5G will use the 700MHz frequency band the band currently used for digital terrestrial broadcasting with the broadcasters moving to . 600MHz 700MHz may become the world standard for . 5G Continental Europe , the Middle East and Africa are going that way . If the whole world follows , as expected , it makes the cost of equipment less . Talks on getting 700MHz adopted as the world standard are going on at the . moment 5G is not expected in the UK until around 2020. Ofcom says that the UK is using 20 petabytes of mobile data a month , up from 9 petabytes this time last year . Ofcom expects the amount to grow 80x by 2030. Tweet

  • Texas Instruments Debuts SM28VLT32-HT 4 MB Flash Memory Device

    Updated: 2012-11-21 13:01:29
    Texas Instruments rolled out their SM28VLT32-HT 4 MB Flash memory device. The TI high-temperature, nonvolatile IC eliminates the need for up-screening and qualification testing of industrial-grade components for temperature ranges outside data sheet specifications. The SM28VLT32-HT is sampling now in an 8-mm x 25-mm ceramic flat pack, with KGD package options. Volume quantities will available [...]

  • Dr. Wally Rhines on global semiconductor industry outlook 2013 (Pradeep's Point! - Pradeep Chakraborty)

    Updated: 2012-11-21 08:40:00
    It always gives me great pleasure chatting with Dr. Walden (Wallly) C. Rhines, chairman and CEO, of Mentor Graphics, and vice chairman of the EDA Consortium, USA. 2013 is just round the corner. What lies ahead for the global semiconductor industry is a question on everyone’s lips! How will the EDA industry do next year? For that matter, what should the Indian semiconductor industry look forward to next year?View the full article HERE

  • Generate boost rails in a bridge-rectifier circuit EDN

    Updated: 2012-11-21 03:47:36
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  • RGB pixel lighting individually controlled EDN

    Updated: 2012-11-21 03:47:20
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  • Components & Packaging

    Updated: 2012-11-21 03:47:10
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  • Texas Instruments and OMAP: Increasingly Dedicated to Embedded (Inside DSP - BDTi)

    Updated: 2012-11-20 08:50:00
    : Design And Reuse Search IP IP Based SoC News Industry Articles Blogs Videos IP-SOC 2012 Login Join SDIO 3.0 Device USB 3.0 Serdes MIPI Browse Silicon IPs by Category Silicon IP Vendors Browse Verification IPs by Category Verification IPs Vendors Wanted IPs IP Analytics Industry Expert Blogs Texas Instruments and OMAP : Increasingly Dedicated to Embedded Inside DSP BDTi Nov . 20, 2012 In last month's edition of InsideDSP , Jeff Bier's editorial discussed the advantages of and potential issues with designing an embedded system around an application processor originally developed for smartphones , tablets , and other high volume devices . To wit , at the beginning of his writeup , Bier mentioned that Texas Instruments had recently stated its intentions to de-emphasize application processors

  • Analog Devices Unveils ADAS3022 Data Acquisition System IC

    Updated: 2012-11-19 13:25:23
    Analog Devices announced the ADAS3022 data acquisition integrated circuit. The 16-bit, 1-MSPS ADI IC uses one-third the board space of competing discrete devices. It enables engineers to simplify designs and reduce the size of advanced industrial data acquisition systems. The ADAS3022 is available now in 40-lead LFCSP ((lead-frame chip-scale package). It is priced at $14.95. [...]

  • Microchip Unveils MCP19035 PWM Controller, MCP87xxx Power MOSFET Devices

    Updated: 2012-11-16 13:29:15
    Microchip Technology introduced the MCP19035 power-conversion controller family and the MCP87xxx family of power MOSFET devices. The MCP19035 and MCP87xxx families are available now for sampling and volume production. The MCP19035 family is available in a 3×3 mm 10-pin DFN package. Prices start at $1.12 each in 5,000-unit quantities. The MCP87022 and the MCP87050 are [...]

  • The World's Fastest Growing Semiconductor Company (GLOBALFOUNDRIES Foundry Files Blog - Mike Noonen)

    Updated: 2012-11-15 10:08:00
    In the midst of an unstable world economy and an industry that is best known for its volatility, the foundry sector continues to present strong market opportunities. Thanks in large part to the continued success of the fabless business model, analysts have been predicting growth in foundry to significantly outpace the rest of the semiconductor industry as a whole.View the full article HERE

  • Microchip MGC3130 Electrical-field 3D Gesture Controller Features GestIC Technology

    Updated: 2012-11-14 13:14:56
    Microchip Technology introduced their configurable MGC3130 electrical-field based 3D gesture controller. The device features patented GestIC technology. GestIC enables the next dimension in intuitive, gesture-based, non-contact user interfaces for a broad range of end products. The configurable MGC3130 E-field IC offers low-power, precise, fast and robust hand position tracking with free-space gesture recognition. Samples of [...]

  • Analog FastSPICE AMS Combines Circuit and Verilog HDL Simulator

    Updated: 2012-11-13 13:29:47
    Berkeley Design Automation released their Analog FastSPICE AMS. AFS AMS combines the foundry certified Analog FastSPICE circuit simulator with any leading Verilog hardware description language (HDL) simulator to provide full Verilog-AMS language support. It offers simple, fast, and accurate verification of complex nanometer-scale mixed-signal circuits. Read more: Analog FastSPICE AMS Combines Circuit and Verilog HDL [...]

  • Dialog Semiconductor Debuts DA9063 Configurable Power Management IC

    Updated: 2012-11-12 13:29:38
    Dialog Semiconductor introduced the DA9063 integrated configurable power management IC for ARM quad-core and dual-core application processors. The DA9063 PMIC device can deliver up to 12A from its six DC/DC converters, which is at least 24% better than the competition. The Dialog Semiconductor DA9063 IC has an operating temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees [...]

  • Application Note: Improved Circuit Design Flow using Modelithics Passive Models

    Updated: 2012-11-09 13:25:05
    AWR released an application note about the benefits of combining Modelithics Global Models for passive RLC components with AWR’s Microwave Office high-frequency design software. The improved design flow solution maps the impact that individual components have on sub-system performance such that trade-offs can be made with regard to component values and tolerance, enabling lower manufacturing [...]

  • Analog Devices Debuts AD514x and AD512x Series of digiPOT Devices

    Updated: 2012-11-07 13:21:20
    Analog Devices launched the AD514x and AD512x series of non-volatile single-, dual- and quad-channel digital potentiometers. The ADI digiPOT devices feature resistance tolerance of ±1 percent (typical). The AD514x and AD512x series improves component matching in industrial and communication control systems. Digital POT devices can be used to calibrate system tolerances or dynamically control system [...]

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