| Power to grab spotlight at DAC
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2009-07-28 |
| As has been the case for the past several years, low-power design is expected to be one of the central themes of the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC). |
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| How much power do WiMAX networks need?
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2009-01-02 |
| A WiMAX network must have an optimised power profile—from the base station to the mobile device. |
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| Big players enter MEMS mic arena
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2008-11-03 |
| The MEMS microphone has a new entrant: ADI has announced a major thrust into the fledgling MEMS mic market. |
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| Jedec spec enables more accurate serial ADCs
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2008-09-16 |
| IBM's 8B/10B makes single transmission-line-pair communications possible at frequencies above 2GHz. |
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| Keithley, Azimuth to create RF test solutions
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2008-06-19 |
| Keithley and Azimuth Systems announce a collaboration to create LTE, WiMAX RF testing solutions. |
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| Leadis boosts audio business with class G tech
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2007-11-14 |
| Jim Hauer, Leadis Technology's senior director for new business devt, talks about his company's patented class G amplifier technology, Gmax, and the company's product roadmap. |
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| Handset interface taps capacitive sensors
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2007-10-09 |
| The capacitive-sensing user interface is beginning to emerge as a practical and innovative upgrade for mechanical buttons in mobile handsets. A designer could opt for capacitive sensing on top of mechanical buttons, where a light touch would trigger the capacitive sensor, and a heavy touch would actuate the mechanical switch. |
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| HDD makers explore tech to double bit density
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2007-06-27 |
| HDD makers are exploring new technologies such as disc track media that might be able to nearly double the density of bits on a disc, thus extending the life of perpendicular recording in HDDs. |
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| ESC chips capitalise on MEMS tech
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2007-06-01 |
| Freescale's ESC-capable combo MEMS sensor for vehicles uses a combination of low-G sensors and gyros to achieve angular momentum outputs in addition to acceleration. |
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| Signal-integrity issues trouble multi-gigahertz era
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2007-03-16 |
| Engineers want a new bag of tricks to manage signal integrity as data rates soar into multi-gigahertz territory. |
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| Overcoming challenges in implant system design
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2007-02-16 |
| This article discusses the challenges posed by in-body communications systems and also some of the general technical and biocompatibility issues for implanted system design. |
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| High-speed ADCs bridge analogue, digital hardware
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2007-01-16 |
| With the speed and channel density of ADCs increasing, in-system adjustments to digital output-drive levels and termination resistors can aid the digital signal integrity at high data rates. This is especially true for ADCs with a serial LVDS output. |
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| SiGe Semi chip serves GPS, Galileo
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2006-11-16 |
| SiGe Semiconductor Inc. is anticipating the emergence of a quick OEM market for Europe's new space-based navigation network. |
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| Advanced memories still struggle in mobiles
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2006-05-16 |
| Memory research managers themselves have scaled back their rhetoric in the past, avoiding the term universal memory altogether. |
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