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May 8, 2008[TechView: Digital] The "Ferros" Would Be Proud Of This New NVM
In ancient Egypt, the Horus of Gold represented a form of a pharaoh’s name most typically thought to mean “superior to his foes” and associated with eternity. These qualities would be highly desirable in any nonvolatile memory (NVM) product. Now suppose you could take a standard serial flash memory and add virtually unlimited endurance and the ability to perform write operations at bus speed. That’s right—no write delays after data reaches the memory device, and...
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Daniel Harris
May 6, 2008
[Designed In] TriQuint Supplying MMICs For Army Phased-Array Radar
TriQuint Semiconductor has started shipping production GaAs monolithic microwave ICs to Lockheed Martin Radar Systems for use in the EQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radars being developed for the U.S. Army. The new devices are the latest products to be developed for Lockheed Martin in a relationship that has also included work on radar programs for ship-borne and aircraft systems.
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ED News Staff
May 1, 2008
[Technology In The News] Freescale Completes Acquisition of SigmaTel
Freescale Semiconductor has completed its acquisition of SimaTel Inc., paying $3 per outstanding share of SigmaTel stock, a total of about $110 million in cash. The privately held Freescale will merge SigmaTel’s technology and employees with Freescale’s Multimedia Applications Division, which reports to Lynelle McKay, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Networking and Multimedia Group.
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ED News Staff
April 29, 2008
[Technology In The News] Infineon Acquires Digital Power IC Design Firm
Looking to further strengthen its activities in the field of power management applications, Infineon Technologies has acquired Primarion Inc. The Torrance, Calif.-based Primarion is a fabless company that designs, manufactures, and markets digital power ICs for Computing, graphics, and communication applications.
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ED News Staff
April 28, 2008
[TechScope] E-Voting—For Want Of A Paper Trail
Concern about the reliability of electronic voting systems is old news. Electronic voting machines were around long before the Florida fiasco. But for some reason, the problem and the machines seem unfixable, which is why they’re getting so much attention in this presidential election year.
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Ron Schneiderman
April 24, 2008
[TechView: Digital] Carbon To Replace Copper On Semiconductor Superhighways
Copper has had plenty of time in the sun as a medium for electrons to travel to work each day. And although it has only been used in semiconductor interconnects for about 10 years, its days may be limited thanks to carbon. The debate on using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for semiconductor interconnects has been ongoing for a while now, but recent research indicates that carbon offers first-class service to travel-weary electrons.
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Daniel Harris
April 23, 2008
[Electronic Design UPDATE] Electronic Design Update: April 23, 2008
Like pretty much everyone else in the world of commerce, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is moving aggressively to expand its operations globally, most recently becoming the first organization to provide third-party product certification to Mexico. In fact, the group has issued its first Normas Oficiales Mexicanas (NOM) marks to global electronics manufacturing customers entering the Mexican market.
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John Arkontaky
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April 24, 2008[Engineering Essentials] Improve Product Qualification Accuracy with Advanced Solid-State Storage Usage SMART Monitoring Technology
For software engineers, system-level hardware engineers, program managers, and product marketing managers alike, the product qualification process can be a challenging one, especially for applications requiring long product lifecycles. Since product life can be tied closely to the storage solution used, establishing the projected life of a product’s storage system solution under various application-specific usage models provides a critical—though previously unavailable—indicator of storage...
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Gary Drossel
April 24, 2008[Engineering Essentials] DDR3’s Impact on Signal Integrity
Applications demanding higher system bandwidth and lower power, such as converged notebooks, desktop PCs, and servers, continue to drive the evolution of industry standards, including DDR3 as defined by JEDEC. The latest DDR3 memory standard, JEDEC JESD79-3A, specifically supports these needs and the requirements of emerging dual and multicore processor systems. DDR3 differs from the well-established DDR2 standard in several areas, such as data rate, operating voltage, and logic....
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John Nieto
April 24, 2008[Engineering Essentials] Storage Must Prepare For The Zettabyte Universe
Remember when bubble memory was the top storage technology? Then along came the faster, cheaper, and higherdensity hard-disk drive (HDD). Of course, bubble memory replaced core memory. One example of the latter was the Apollo Guidance Computer, which incorporated the read-only core rope memory (it resembled a rope of woven copper wire). The Apollo 11 lunar mission in July 1969 used 36 kwords of core rope memory ROM with a cycle time of 11.7 µs to...
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Daniel Harris
April 24, 2008[Leapfrog: First Look] SDRAM Chip Set Boldly Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before
When it comes to achieving more memory in the same amount of space, we typically talk about process shrinks, die stacking, multichip packaging, and other techniques. But MetaRAM, a fabless company that recently “de-cloaked,” has shot its new DIMM-based SDRAM torpedoes into the market and scored a direct hit. Web 2.0-type applications are causing bottlenecks in memory usage. Also, processing power is doubling every 18 months while DRAM capacity doubles only...
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Daniel Harris
April 16, 2008
[Electronic Design UPDATE] Electronic Design Update: April 16, 2008
Fibre Channel (FC) has been the storage-area network (SAN) connection technology of choice for years. Competition from the Ethernet-based iSCSI has made SAN market inroads over the past few years, and there’s no doubt that increased competition will continue. However, FC certainly isn’t dead.
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John Arkontaky
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April 9, 2008
[Designed In] Harris Opts For Altera FPGAs In Routing Switchers
Harris Corp. has picked the Altera Stratix II GX FPGA for use in the Harris Platinum line of large-scale routing switchers. The Platinum line supports a wide range of video-signal formats, up to 1080p (3 Gbits/s) using Altera’s triple-rate 3G SDI IP core.
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ED News Staff
April 9, 2008
[Electronic Design UPDATE] Electronic Design Update: April 9, 2008
After effectively superseding the PCI bus, PCI Express interconnect technology is now entrenched in its early high-growth markets: PCs, workstations, servers, and storage systems. It has started to penetrate other markets as well, and it is on track to become more popular than any previous interconnect standard.
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John Arkontaky
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April 10, 2008[Engineering Feature] Portable Media Keeps Playing And Playing And...
Portable media players, like the Apple iPod and its competitors, have been around for many years, so you might think no further improvements are possible. But this doesn’t seem to be the case. Somehow, the companies that develop audio chips for these devices continue to come up with innovative ways to improve their offerings. The benefit to consumers is a more enjoyable listening experience for longer periods of time. A slew of new audio chips promising...
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Joseph Desposito
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