By William Wong, February 08, 2012
Freescale has finally taken off the wrapping around the 12-core, 24-thread T4240 QorIQ processor with hardware power scheduling support.
By William Wong, February 07, 2012
Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at SuperMicro's AS-4022G-6F A+ Server that runs a pair of AMD 16-core, Opteron 6000 Series.
By David Maliniak, February 07, 2012
Accurate thermal management depends on accurate simulation models. Mentor Graphics' thermal characterization and analysis methodology builds thermal models of IC packages and LEDs for use in FloTHERM thermal simulations.
By Victoria Fraza Kickham, February 07, 2012
Reliability and performance meet demand for speed, flexibility and intelligence in today’s connector technology.
Cavium's OCTEON III is built around 48 MIPS64 cores along with major hardware accelerators to handle everything from RAID to packet processing.
PCI Express has been dominant in PCs and servers but some embedded areas have been slower to adopt it until now.
By Staff, February 07, 2012
Linear Technology Corp. has introduced the LTC3861, a dual output synchronous step-down DC/DC controller with multiphase operation, differential output voltage sensing and high frequency operation
By Patrick Groeneveld, February 07, 2012
Remember when people feared losing their jobs to computers? Now the tables are turned, says Magma's Patrick Groeneveld, and the automation techniques used in EDA are actually creating jobs.
By Tom Curatolo, February 07, 2012
By Bob Pease, February 07, 2012
By Bob Zollo, February 07, 2012
When your bench supply's capacitors are all charged up with nowhere for that charge to go, an active down-programmer is a handy technique that brings rise and fall times back into a viable range.
Twice the lumens/dollar of other LEDs and the highest performance and efficacy are offered by the XT-E SiC-based LEDs, following the recently released SiC XB-D LEDs.
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