September 30, 2014
Altera has moved to a 55nm embedded flash process to continue its Max series of non-volatile FPGAs.
September 29, 2014
To make a high-efficiency power supply XP Power used heat as an additional design variable with an architecture that turns conventional wisdom over one aspect of component reliability on its head.
September 17, 2014
Silicon Labs has developed a new type of parametric search tool that focuses on the selection of clock generators and jitter attenuators, making it easier to match them and downstream devices to the SoCs being designed into a PCB.
August 13, 2014
Two of the custom designs presented at the 26th Hot Chips in Cupertino exemplified the problems caused by increasing power density and the benefits of looking at heat removal at the system level.
August 8, 2014
High peak-to-average ratios inherent in 4G/5G modulation schemes are driving the circuitry controlling RF PAs to become more modeling-oriented.
August 7, 2014
Nokia Siemens Networks has built an instrument able to handle bandwidths up 1GHz to investigate the use of milllimeter-band radio for 5G communications.
August 6, 2014
National Instruments has developed a kernel for Spice analog simulations that can be downloaded for faster performance on the FPGAs inside CompactRIO hardware.
July 24, 2014
Cadence Design Systems has made three additions to its OrCAD line of PCB tools, largely aimed at data management and organization for projects.
July 23, 2014
New data transfer standard challenges IPC-2581 and extends Mentor's own ODB++.
June 25, 2014
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