October 10, 2008 - Industry News
Micron cutting workforce by 15%, ramping down NAND ops
As part of its restructuring, Micron said it will reduce its global workforce by approximately 15% over the next two years, most of which ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Transimpedance-amplifier-noise issues
How much noise is too much noise in a photodiode-preamplifier circuit? You can derive the noise performance of a transimpedance amplifier ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Why tout a demo board nobody can buy?
Recently, my buddy Dave was trying to make a remote-control airplane that would transmit high-definition video to the operator on the ground. ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
Gigahertz-class processor stresses energy efficiency for applications with varying usage scenarios
Freescale’s MPC8536E PowerQUICC (quad-integrated-communications-controller) III processors include advanced power- and energy- ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
On time, every time: embedding real-time performance
High-speed graphics, user interfaces, and networks represent the norm in embedded-system designs, and these performance issues dictate the use ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
China continues to dominate Asia/Pac semi industry growth, but India, Vietnam gaining
As Gartner lowers its forecast for Asia/Pacific semiconductor growth, it notes the China/Hong Kong market is expected to continue to experience ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Virtualization: silicon and software salvation or technological tower of Babel?
Stable, robust code speaks one language; new CPUs speak another. Is a software rewrite necessary to resolve the seeming contradiction, or ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Micron posts $1.6B net loss for fiscal 2008
Steve Appleton, Micron chairman and CEO commented, "The global memory market continues to experience severe oversupply and price degradation ...
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October 1, 2008 - Top Story News
Studying the second-generation Apple iPod Touch
I admit it; I am such a wimp. I get my hands on an expensive and hard-to-disassemble (or more accurately, reassemble) widget, and all of my ...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
Sony Ericsson begins 2,000 job cuts
Sony Ericsson has begun a worldwide reorganization and headcount reduction that will see around 2,000 of its jobs cut over the next 12 ...
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September 22, 2008 - Industry News
REACH update: 'Substitute It Now' Substances of Very High Concern list released
The EU environmental NGOs through the International Chemical Secretariat has released its "Substitute It Now" list of 220 chemical substances ...
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September 18, 2008 - Technology News
IBM, ITRI explore solid state "racetrack memory"
IBM Corp said today that it has started joint development work with Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to ...
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September 12, 2008 - Technology News
Speed acquisition made simple
Speed acquisition is of central importance in the control and monitoring of motion processes. We cannot imagine our industrially powered modern ...
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September 5, 2008 - Industry News
Moto’s mobile spinout and co-CEO contradictory compensation
While many of us were slipping out last Friday to gain an early start on out three-day Labor Day weekends here in the United States, Illinois- ...
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September 5, 2008 - Technology News
Prying apart a portable audio player
Free after $65 rebate, with free shipping. That's the deal that routed a refurbished Sandisk Sansa M250 from Newegg to my front door last ...
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September 5, 2008 - Technology News
Transimpedance-amplifier stability is key in light-sensing apps
A variety of precision applications sense light and convert that information into a useful digital word. At the system’s front end, a ...
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September 5, 2008 - Technology News
Platinum-RTD-based circuit provides high performance with few components
The standard way of using an RTD (resistance-temperature-detector) sensor is to include it in a bridge followed by a differential amplifier. ...
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September 4, 2008 - Industry News
Is Silicon Valley dead?
So a woman that used to work at Cisco Systems and was in a startup just did a book about how innovation is dead in Silicon Valley. A lot of ...
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September 2, 2008 - Industry News
Sensors to drive global MEMS market to $8.8 billion in 2012
The global market for MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) will expand to $8.8 billion in 2012, up from $6.1 billion in 2006, iSuppli Corp ...
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August 29, 2008 - Technology News
Analyzer/exerciser validates 5-Gbps SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Although USB 3.0 with its 5-Gbps SuperSpeed technology probably won't reach the market in volume until mid-2010, manufacturers are now developing ...
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August 27, 2008 - Industry News
Avnet's Roy Vallee: Staying constant in a world of change
Thirty-one years ago, Roy Vallee joined a little company known as Hamilton/Avnet as a field sales representative. After subsequent ...
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August 27, 2008 - Industry News
Qimonda starts volume Rambus DRAM production for PS3
Qimonda AG today announced that it has started shipping Rambus XDR DRAM in volume for the Playstation 3 (PS3) system. Qimonda started to ship ...
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August 26, 2008 - Technology News
IBM makes steps toward carbon nanotube-based devices
Building on its continued work in nanotechnology, IBM Corp said scientists in its Yorktown Heights, NY-based facility have integrated and ...
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August 22, 2008 - Technology News
On-chip test capabilities solve the analog-test problem for high-speed serial interfaces
A small amount of on-chip analog-test hardware offers big payoffs when you are dealing with high-speed serial interfaces. As part of the ...
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August 22, 2008 - Technology News
It’s an electromagnetic-mechanical world
In the late 1980s, I was working on a currency counter that included an option to detect counterfeit currency. The counter’s mechanism ...
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