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Many major memory suppliers out of top 20 semi supplier ranking: IC Insights 5/15/2008
Many of the major DRAM and flash suppliers exit IC Insights’ top 20 semiconductor list, hardened by dipping average selling prices. Without their sluggish preformace weighing the ranking down, the market research company reports total Q1 year-over-year sales for the top 20 semiconductor suppliers displayed an 11% increase as compared to the total worldwide semiconductor market increase of 4%.
Mentor bolsters Calibre DFM toolset with Ponte acquisition 5/15/2008
Voices: Intellon’s Mark Hazen on the HomePlug AV powerline-networking alternative 5/15/2008
Embedded software development tools make for more flexible silicon 5/15/2008
Third-party-IP providers: Physical-design questions, part one 5/15/2008
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Analog Design
RMS and peak-to-peak noise trade-off
5/13/2008
If you are putting output data from an ADC into a digital display, the peak-to-peak noise representation becomes important.
Tiny microcontroller hosts dual dc/dc-boost converters 5/15/2008
When Web sites go bad 5/15/2008
Small capacitor supports telecom power supply during brownouts 5/15/2008
Cross-coupled gates prevent push-pull-driver overlap 5/15/2008
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Malware in Flash animations
IC Design
Mentor bolsters Calibre DFM toolset with Ponte acquisition 5/15/2008
In order to help reduce the impact of process variability during semiconductor design and manufacturing, Mentor Graphics Corp announced today that it has acquired the assets of Mountain View, Calif.-based Ponte Solutions Inc, a developer of model-based design for manufacturing software tools, for an undisclosed amount.
Save valuable picoseconds using ECL-wired OR 5/15/2008
Third-party-IP providers: Physical-design questions, part one 5/15/2008
Voltage-aware simulation: No longer a fad, but a must for low-power designers 5/14/2008
Synopsys donates VMM methodology library, apps to standards group 5/12/2008
EDA tools in search of performance—a trend for DAC 2008
The future for smart phones: a Blackberry point of view
Processor-based Design
Embedded software development tools make for more flexible silicon
5/15/2008
Evolving approaches to software development go beyond simply making processor-based design faster and easier. An emerging trend sees vendors making hardware more flexible and providing software that allows designers to more easily explore options and move among processing choices.
Tiny microcontroller hosts dual dc/dc-boost converters 5/15/2008
IBM brings HPC to the masses with next-gen Cell processor 5/13/2008
Lossless coding comes to portables 5/13/2008
Tensilica, Lawrence Berkeley lab tackle energy-efficient supercomputing for climate modeling 5/5/2008
What makes it an 'embedded system?'
Software and hardware: Processor vendors now give support and development kits serious attention
Applied System Design
High availability in embedded systems: Always on
5/13/2008
Designers are tuning high-availability architectures to meet customer demands for a persistent data interface for the next generation of ultrareliable embedded-system applications.
Overcoming USB measurement-test-setup issues 5/13/2008
Pentek shrinks software-radio module 5/8/2008
Processor supports capacitive touch sensing for button and slider replacement 5/1/2008
Active-matrix display employs nanowire transistors 5/1/2008
Embedded standards become critical
ESC Silicon Valley – Last Day
Power Management
The Tesla Roadster: Sporty and electric
5/14/2008
Prying Eyes: A modern electric sports car presents a unique design challenge.
Small capacitor supports telecom power supply during brownouts 5/15/2008
Solid-state cooling device harnesses corona discharge 5/1/2008
EPA releases Energy Star guidelines for servers 4/3/2008
Honest energy: The danger low-power-factor loads pose for the energy grid 4/2/2008
Robotic jellyfish communicates with peers, charges itself
What’s behind chip-maker TI’s purchase of power supply reference design company
Consumer Electronics Design
Testing your notebook design for audio fidelity
5/13/2008
The Windows Logo Program for the Vista operating system has introduced new audio-fidelity requirements for notebook PCs. Critical troubleshooting techniques can help you achieve compliance.
Lossless coding comes to portables 5/13/2008
CSR hits $6 parts cost for DSP-Bluetooth headset 5/13/2008
Qualcomm and Taiwan's Foxlink plan factory for MEMS-based displays 5/7/2008
Solid-state drives: HDD replacements? Huge disappointments? Neither. 5/1/2008
Sad NAS: Heat = Dead HDD
Sayonara, Yahoo. Salut, Zune!
Communications/Network Design
Laser goes to (trim) pot
5/14/2008
Tales From The Cube: The laser in a SONET transponder begins to behave erratically with varying temperature. Should the engineers blame the climate, or the human element?
10-GbE in the mainstream 5/1/2008
Intel invests $500M in Taiwan WiMax 4/22/2008
You can punch out and manufacture this cell-phone reference design 4/17/2008
Laying seamless WiMax fabric 4/3/2008
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
MEMS sensor provides early detection of motor-bearing irregularities
5/7/2008
Analog Devices’ ADXL001 industrial vibration and shock sensor allows designers of industrial equipment or instrumentation to cost-effectively incorporate continuous, high-performance, high-bandwidth vibration monitoring into their designs.
Circuit and software provide accurate recalibration for baseline PIC microcontroller’s internal oscillator 5/1/2008
Microcontroller moving-dot display interface uses three I/O lines 5/1/2008
Switched-gain op amp serves as phase detector or mixer 5/1/2008
Active-matrix display employs nanowire transistors 5/1/2008
Ramtron International Corp FM25H20: 2-Mbit serial FRAM has a high-speed SPI
Microchip Technology dsPIC: DSC features 16-bit audio DACs
Test & Measurement
Overcoming USB measurement-test-setup issues
5/13/2008
Designers must meet stringent constraints to comply with the USB-IF spec. Clever techniques can help you design your system to meet these specs.
Mentor Graphics acquires NXP design-for-test technology, developers 5/6/2008
Microcontroller displays multiple chart or oscilloscope timing ticks 5/1/2008
Scrape it: How to probe a microstrip trace with no accessible test points or vias 4/28/2008
Small footprint value-priced scopes offer bigger displays, deeper memory, bus debugging, and more 4/22/2008
CE industry makes consumers stupid
Stupid consumers plague CE industry
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
Applied Q2 sales down 15% y/y, sees cycle bottom mid-year 5/14/2008
Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor, display and solar panel manufacturing equipment giant Applied Materials Inc reported net sales for its fiscal Q2 ended April 27 that were down 15% from fiscal Q2 2007, and up 3% from fiscal Q1. Company execs noted on a call with Wall Street analysts that it expects fiscal Q3 to mark the bottom in silicon revenues.
Many major memory suppliers out of top 20 semi supplier ranking: IC Insights 5/15/2008
Mentor bolsters Calibre DFM toolset with Ponte acquisition 5/15/2008
ON Semi to close fabs, lay off 400 5/14/2008
TSMC board approves $1B share buyback, expanding Fab 12 5/14/2008
SunPower touting full-scale solar cell prototype at 23.4% efficiency
Photovoltaic industry pushed to realign biz, seek alternative raw materials
Business Strategy
SEC charges Broadcom co-founders for stock-options backdating, Samueli resigns as chairman 5/14/2008
Updated: The SEC has charged Broadcom’s former CEO and co-founder Henry Nicholas; chairman, CTO, and co-founder Henry Samueli; former CFO William J. Ruehle; and general counsel David Dull for their alleged participation in a “five-year systematic scheme to secretly backdate stock options.” Samueli and Dull take leaves of absence as executive officers of Broadcom pending resolution of the civil complaint.
Memory prices appear to be stabilizing, Converge reports 5/15/2008 2:52:00 PM
Many major memory suppliers out of top 20 semi supplier ranking: IC Insights 5/15/2008
Mentor bolsters Calibre DFM toolset with Ponte acquisition 5/15/2008
ON Semi to close fabs, lay off 400 5/14/2008
Electronics Supply Chain
Memory prices appear to be stabilizing, Converge reports 5/15/2008 2:52:00 PM
In order for the market to rise, all DRAM manufacturers need to be on the same page -- and so far this strategy appears to be working, the global supply chain partner says in its monthly “Market intelligence for the supply chain” report. Converge also notes that some Intel products will still be highly constrained throughout the month of May.
China earthquake impact on Intel plant appears to be superficial 5/14/2008
Outsourced chip design starts up 20%, Gartner reports 5/12/2008
EMS grows less than ODM, still controls majority of industry, IDC finds 5/12/2008
Semiconductor inventory situation worse than thought: Gartner 5/5/2008
Top 25 electronics distributors list
EDS: Strategy for distributor success with HB LEDs
Newsletters
Electronic News Today 5/16/2008
Electronic News Today: Broadcom execs charged by SEC; Layoffs at ON Semi; more... 5/15/2008
EDN Online: New Design Ideas, third-party-IP providers, more... 5/15/2008
EDN on IC Design: Third-party-IP providers, smart phones, more... 5/15/2008
Electronic News Today: TSMC adds $1B to capex; China earthquake impact on Intel; more... 5/14/2008
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Blogs
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Sad NAS: Heat = Dead HDD from Brian's Brain
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Malware in Flash animations from Anablog
05/15/2008
Design Ideas detail novel power supplies from Designing Ideas
05/15/2008
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Product fEEd
Ramtron International Corp FM25H20: 2-Mbit serial FRAM has a high-speed SPI 05/15/2008
Microchip Technology dsPIC: DSC features 16-bit audio DACs 05/15/2008
Renesas Technology America H8S/2153 and H8S/2164:16-bit microcontrollers suit servers and advanced communication equipment 05/14/2008
Toshiba America Electronic Components TC35892XBG: Expander provides 24 configurable general-purpose I/O ports 05/13/2008
Seiko Epson Corp and E Ink Corp S1D13521B: Controller IC targets EPDs 05/13/2008
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