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Implementing standards: Think global, act local? (19/01/2006)

... article details how a 94-member cooperative of makers of Parmesan cheese in northern Italy successfully introduced RFID chips into their operation, which produces and handles several hundred thousand cheese wheels each year. Before you think this ...

Specialty strategies (19/01/2006)

... million. Despite its mere 1 percent market share among pure-play foundries (manufacturers that don't design their own chips), the private company increased its sales by nearly $50 million last year and is looking to buy another fabrication ...

Zig Behave (19/01/2006)

... IEEE 802.15.4, which was finalized last year. There's been an onslaught of chip unveilings since then. Some predict those chips will see their first usage in industrial applications, while many predict that consumer products from lamps to ...

Reference design adds support for mobile WiMax (19/01/2006)

... both base-station and subscriber equipment. Meanwhile, picoChip moved to add mobile-WiMax support. The market leader in chips for the base-station side of the WiMax equation, picoChip just added support for the coming mobile flavor.Although ...

Video-processing chip gets MII approval (19/01/2006)

... to industry insiders, Hiview is not a pioneer product in China, but it may become one of the first video-processing chips to be commercialized.Hisense, ...

FROM EDN EUROPE: CMOS amplifier ICs reduce noise to bipolar levels (19/01/2006)

... from a new class of CMOS amplifier. Linear Technologies' LTC6241/2 are dual/quad amplifier, 18-MHz gain-bandwidth chips that feature noise levels of 550 nVp-p in the 0.1- to 10-Hz region, which the company says is a three-fold reduction over what ...

Electronic IDs 'need rational debate' (19/01/2006)

... Dr Wolfgang Klemm, chair of AITSF. “Increasing implementations of national ID programs in other countries using secure chips and operating systems on smart cards is evidence of the value in raising security levels, and protecting the rights of ...

Matsushita Files Suit Against MediaTek (19/01/2006)

... Matsushita patents by certain MediaTek ICs.The suit also names two companies whose DVD devices use the MediaTek IC chips, OPPO Digital Inc. and Micro-Star International Co. Ltd.The filing came after negotiations between Matsushita and ...

Flexible silicon: GUI-programmable audio processors—an EDN BenchPress project (19/01/2006)

... ICs offers simple and direct parametric control and functional programmability. Taking full advantage of flexible chips, however, may demand flexibility in your design methods, as well.A simple categorization assigns most signal-processing ...

Zander's balancing act (19/01/2006)

... last year Motorola shipped nearly 105 million handsets, out of a global total of 703 million. Assuming at least three chips per phone-and handsets often have more than three-that's more than 300 million chips. "Any large chip consumer will have an ...

The 10 most significant companies (19/01/2006)

... MaterialsTurning Moore's prediction from a theory into a law means building machines that can manufacture chips at ever greater densities. The entire semiconductor industry struggles to cope at every node. EDA firms rush to develop new tools, ...

RF Capacitor (19/01/2006)

... the SQCS Series and offering what is said to be the best electrical performance available in this package size, the chips are suitable for RF/microwave applications ranging from 1 MHz to 10 GHz including power amplifiers, filters, low-noise ...

Where land does not meet the sea (19/01/2006)

... my detailed street data from the MapSend CD for which I had doled out an equal sum. Land and sea had to be on separate SD chips lest marine files swamp (err, corrupt) the street files, I was told. What nonsense! Moreover, I could not download more ...

TI chips in Wideband, cellular support (19/01/2006)

... Instruments has introduced a new cable chipset that incorporates cellular codecs and a "Wideband" reference design based on the forthcoming DOCSIS 3.0 specification.TI's DSP-based TNETC47xx (Puma-4) voice-over-cable chipset comes equipped with ...

MEMS accelerometers pick up speed (19/01/2006)

... chips to protect products from clumsy usersFor roughly a decade, MEMS accelerometers have been making automobiles safer by triggering air bags in the event of a crash. But manufacturers of the tiny sensors have always had larger ambitions: a ...

Office of the Future Starts with Smart Carpeting (19/01/2006)

... in Huntington Beach, Calif. this past month.In actuality, it was their "Pyxos" network platform—a series of smart chips that were embedded into the rug. According to Mike Tennefoss, Echelon's vice president of marketing, the company thought ...

A systematic approach to verifying FSMs (19/01/2006)

... for finite-state machines can impact the quality and verifiability of the final implementation.Large SOCs (systems on chips) comprise many FSMs (finite-state machines), which combine with datapaths, memories, and other components. Although ...

Broadband over coax plays both home- and access-networking roles (19/01/2006)

... will offer broadband services in MDUs using Panasonic ( www.panasonic.com) gear that the company based on Entropic chips. J:Com will offer data services at speeds as high as 100 Mbps. The deployment relies on fiber to a building that connects to ...

Cache averts memory crisis (19/01/2006)

... MHz of bandwidth. Consequently, the processor spends much of its time “idling”, awaiting data or instructions from memory chips. It's as frustrating as waiting at a red light in a Ferrari.Despite its restricted bandwidth, however, DRAM ...

Vishay to Get CyOptics Israeli Operations (19/01/2006)

... technology and has a wafer fab in Yokneam, Israel, for the production of gallium arsenide and indium phosphide (InP) chips used for optoelectronics. Vishay has plans to develop new advanced products at this facility, the company said."The ...

IBM Gets SiGe with It (19/01/2006)

... radar at 24GHz for blindside detection and at 77GHz for collision warning or advanced cruise control; 60GHz Wi-Fi chips; software defined radios for cellular handsets; and high-speed A/D and D/A converters for applications like data acquisition, ...

DSPs Take Control (19/01/2006)

... simplify designs, Microchip Technology combines microcontroller and DSP functions in its digital signal controller (DSC) chips. According to Steve Marsh, Digital Signal Controller Division Strategic Marketing Manager, circuits that include ...

Get the message: Power-management protocol rides on industry bus (19/01/2006)

... for communication between large ICs, typically within a single backplane. As Alfano puts it, "It's a little LAN for chips. With only two wires, an almost unlimited number of talkers and listeners can be on the network. And many microcontrollers ...

A Current Sense Resistor Challenge: Open Air Type Metal Element Resistors vs. Metal Strip Chip Resistors (19/01/2006)

... the two types provide the open air type metal element resistors with certain performance advantages to metal strip chips, particularly in terms of thermal management.The open air type resistors have several design differences compared to metal ...

Thermal integrity: a must for low-power-IC digital design (19/01/2006)

... from a third-order to a first-order concern for chip designers, especially those designing ASICs and SOCs (systems on chips) for portable-system applications. Accordingly, many power tools made their debut at this year's Design Automation ...

Power goes digital (19/01/2006)

... has been slow and limited. Many power designers erroneously believe that only high-end systems justify the burden of DSP chips and that simple microcontrollers lack the throughput necessary for reasonable performance in common converters. In ...

Queensland Incubator delivering results (19/01/2006)

... design company FTD Technology. Nano Silicon specialises in the development of high-performance analogue and mixed-signal chips for high-speed transmission. Among its intellectual property (IP) are Digital Visual Interface (DVI) and High Definition ...

New Progress on MIGFETs (19/01/2006)

... memory cell using finFETs. With gate dimensions measuring only 20 nm, the new memory cell would make non-volatile memory chips with a capacity of 32 Gb possible within a few years. That is 8× the capacity of what is currently available on the ...

Embedded-System Programmers Draw the Lines (19/01/2006)

... and who have developed code for embedded systems. National Instruments also offers LabVIEW modules that target DSP chips and FPGAs. And the company provides compatible hardware that provides DSP and FPGA ...

Single-Chip Solution For Passive Keyless Entry (19/01/2006)

... designing radio frequency systems for passive keyless entry and tire pressure monitoring may now be able to swap two chips for one, thanks to a new device that combines a microcontroller with a three-channel analog transponder.Known as the ...