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'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to chips
News IBM is tinkering with a new material that could drastically slash the costs of "drawing" circuits on semiconductors, with the substance a close relative to tennis shoe glue. The resulting hexagonal pattern then serves as a stencil for mapping out...
[December 8, 2003, 7:55]
Development of a Single-Chip RF Front-End LSI for Wireless LAN With Transmission Line Based Matching Circuits
White Papers In order to reduce the chip size, on-chip CPW lines has been employed to realize on-chip impedance matching circuits which saves 30-40% chip area than those using the spiral inductors. In Direct Conversion Receiver (DCR) architecture, the design of...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
YP DC Circuits
Downloads With YP DC Circuits you can build a virtual electric circuit including batteries, resistors and switches, and take measures on this circuit with an ammeter and a voltmeter. The circuit can be copied, printed or saved as a PICT file.
[October 8, 2001, 8:00]
Motorola mixes up chip chemistry for faster circuits
News Until now, GaAs circuits could only be produced by expensive, non-standard processes. The circuits made by the new method will be particularly interesting to the optoelectronic and wireless data industries, two areas where future growth is...
[September 4, 2001, 9:09]
Analyzing Switched Circuits to Design DC-DC and DC-AC Converters
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative analysis of switched circuit to design Square Wave Generators (SWG). A SWG may be designed by using low-cost electronic components, which allows to the readers to understand how DC-DC and DC-AC...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
LSI Chooses the Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series to Help Engineers Speed New, More Complex Integrated Circuits to the Marketplace
White Papers As LSI engineers packed more functionality into chips and designs grew more complex, EDA processing was taking longer to complete. At the same time, LSI faced competitive pressures to keep new product turnaround as rapid as possible.
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
Chipmakers' directory to combat counterfeiting
News Chip firms have warned that counterfeit components, such as integrated circuits, can reduce systems' performance and reliability and, in some cases, endanger lives. So far, some 360,000 counterfeit integrated circuits have been seized by US and...
[April 25, 2008, 11:05]
HP nanotech takes chips beyond transistors
News With a recent breakthrough in making circuits with molecules, HP hopes to change chip history and expand its own role in the process. Researchers from the South Korea, Japan and the United States -- including IBM and Intel -- will next week publish...
[February 1, 2005, 8:25]
Inkjet printers are chip factories of the future
News Inkjet printers could be the chip factories of the future, squirting out circuits made from layers of organic semiconducting ink. The researchers -- professor Ghassan Jabbour and assistant Yuka Yoshioka -- say that by using standard inkjet printers...
[April 11, 2002, 17:33]
Scalability of 3D-Integrated Arithmetic Units in High-Performance Microprocessors
White Papers Three-Dimensional integration provides a simultaneous improvement in wire-related delay and power consumption of microprocessor circuits. It explores the behavior of the 3D-integrated arithmetic circuits with increasing issue-width (parallel...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
EE Pocket Reference
Downloads Operational Amplifier Circuits and Pinouts 7400 Series Logic Pinouts 555 Timer Circuits and Pinouts Resistor Color Codes Plus Much More
[January 19, 2003, 7:00]
Electronics Optimizer
Downloads Electronics design tool for advanced optimization and design of electronic circuits - with Optimizer, Monte Carlo and Worst Case Analysis. Helps you to quickly design a circuit (choosen from a standard library of circuits) to match your specified...
[May 17, 2007, 8:00]
Circuit Defenders
Downloads Circuit Defenders is a fast paced 3D Tower Defence style game, where your challenge is to defend computer circuits from attacking virus armies that are infiltrating the circuits via the BlueTooth port.
[August 8, 2009, 17:55]
Small Science: Discovering How Molecules Work
White Papers Scientists in the Quantum Science Research group use molecules in circuits to perform the types of computing and communications functions in existing integrated circuits.
[December 14, 2007, 0:01]
Inventor of the integrated circuit dies at 81
News Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. Prior to integrated circuits, engineers had to solder several parts together.
[June 22, 2005, 9:15]
Circuit Defenders Lite
Downloads Circuit Defenders is a fast paced Tower Defense game where your challenge is to defend computer circuits from attacking virus armies that are infiltrating the circuits via the communications port.Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the...
[March 17, 2009, 4:08]
Plastic transistors get rubber stamp
News NYSE:LU) revealed a technique that uses silicon rubber stamps to print computer circuits on flexible plastics, curved surfaces and, someday, even special clothing fibers. Lucent's rubber stamping method can make circuits that are as small as those...
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
IBM, Intel to tip on energy-saving chips
News Intel, IBM and other semiconductor companies will provide details on how future chips will run faster on less energy at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week. Reverse body bias can also reduce leakage, or...
[February 4, 2002, 17:04]
Molecules draw straight line
News Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have come up with a way to organise molecules through lithography, which is the science of "drawing" chip circuits. Currently, creating circuits on silicon chips involves several hundred different...
[July 24, 2003, 7:54]
SonicBirth
Downloads The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also an AudioUnits/VSTs package, as it comes bundled with a set...
[November 18, 2007, 7:00]
