| What the next transistor will be like
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2011-08-01 |
| Here's a comprehensive discussion on the race is on to redefine the transistor |
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Using two-transistor forward topology for 80 PLUS power
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2008-11-18 |
| Achieve higher efficiency and greater reliability with two-transistor forward topology for 80 PLUS supplies |
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Two-transistor forward topology for 80 PLUS efficient power supplies
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2007-10-04 |
| Achieve higher efficiency and greater reliability, using a two-transistor forward topology for 80 PLUS-rated ATX supplies |
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Billion-transistor full-custom designs
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2006-09-17 |
| Read about power integrity issues in today's advanced designs and the unique challenges of full-custom designs. |
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Trim down transistor mismatch errors
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2008-10-29 |
| The Survivor strategy enables a circuit to select the best two matching transistors out of an array of possible pairs. |
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Back to the basics of power MOSFETs
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2007-02-21 |
| This article provides the basics on power MOSFETs. It compares the MOSFET to the bipolar transistor and discusses some tradeoffs |
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Identifying front-end challenges for 90nm design
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2003-09-01 |
| FEOL scaling is about density improvement while simultaneously improving transistor performance |
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Explaining redundant power techniques for servers
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2008-08-18 |
| Problems with redundant power in server applications can be addressed with field effect transistor ORing controllers |
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Back to the basics of power MOSFETs
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2007-02-21 |
| This article provides the basics on power MOSFETs. It compares the MOSFET to the bipolar transistor and discusses some tradeoffs |
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Understand linear voltage regulators
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2008-12-08 |
| Read about a circuit that may help move heat from the regulator chip to a transistor on a heat sink |
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Timing closure: Hybrid optimization to the rescue
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2004-08-16 |
| Hybrid optimization combines ASIC cell-based design flow with transistor-level optimization to achieve improvement in timing closure |
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Increase equipment efficiency with app-specific IGBTs (Part 1)
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2009-09-29 |
| The IGBT, also known as the conductivity-modulated field-effect transistor, is one of the most commonly available advanced switching power devices in the market today |
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Equivalence checking for SoC blocks
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2001-11-16 |
| This technical article explains that as custom blocks become increasingly important for SoCs, equivalence checking between transistor-level implementation and behavioral modeling become equally significant design factors |
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Embedded processors of tomorrow
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2003-11-03 |
| Goodbye binary arithmetic, instruction sets, and assembly language programming. Hello 4.5-billion transistor, 250GHz processors. O brave new embedded world |
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A view of energy conservation in mobile devices, Part 2
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2008-04-16 |
| The gaps grow larger between what mobile devices can do and the amount of energy engineers can deliver. Here is an in-depth look at the power consumption, energy types, process and transistor technology, and packaging issues inherent in mobile device design |
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| Power tip: Discretes as alternative to integrated MOSFET drivers (Part 1)
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2011-12-20 |
| Here's why the humble, inexpensive discrete transistor can be a cost- and performance-effective option, and better in some ways than a more-highly integrated component |
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Energy conservation in portable devices (3)
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2008-04-25 |
| This article addresses the hierarchical approach to low power design of portable devices starting with process and transistor technology |
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To use or not use external DAC
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2009-04-01 |
| Know why using an external audio converter IC over one integrated on SoC can help ensure high-quality audio performance. |
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Redundant power techniques for servers explained
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2007-05-08 |
| This article takes a look at several techniques that are used to support high availability systems. Find out which redundant power technique works best. |
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LED-driver level-shifter includes fault detection
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2007-10-18 |
| Overcome the drawback of loss of fault detection in LED-string drive. |
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Improve top-level simulation for switching DC-DC converters
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2006-04-16 |
| This article presents an optimized solution strategy to improve top-level simulation for switching DC-DC converters. |
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Design with low power while controlling leakage
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2006-06-18 |
| This paper reveals the techniques of designing with low power CMOS circuits. |
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Developing a design methodology for embedded memories
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2001-01-01 |
| Developing a design methodology for |
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| Retro transmission: Hoffman RT-159A radio
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2008-12-18 |
| The RT-159A is a crude tool by today's standards, but in the past it provided a simple but critical function. |
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Smart partitioning in WiMAX radios shows design challenges (1)
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2006-10-13 |
| This article in a two-part series provides background information on the traditional partitioning in WiMAX radios. |
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| Why use SONOS memory for eflash
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2011-10-13 |
| Read about the features of silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon memory technology that make it ideally suited for embedded Flash. |
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Non-classical MOSFET solutions for power-efficient CMOS
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2006-12-17 |
| Facing unprecedented power-performance challenges at 32nm and beyond, new material and device structures are vying to initiate the revolution. This article provides what you need to know. |
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Solutions for LDO load transient improvement
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2008-11-18 |
| This article presents a proposed LDO regulator circuit integrated using 0.5µm CMOS technology. |
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| Infiniband requires design trade-offs
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2000-12-01 |
| As the Internet explosion continued unabated over the last five years, the IT industry has struggled to keep up with the relentless demand for higher bandwidth, availability and decreased cost. PCI has been the workhorse of the computer I/O systems that link server Mips to terabytes of storage and GBps of Internet transmission bandwidth. |
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| Samsung calls on NAND Flash for handsets
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2001-03-01 |
| Samsung Electronics said it has started offering NAND Flash memory, used mostly as data storage memory in Flash cards, as an alternative to NOR Flash devices in multichip packages aimed at cellphone makers. |
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