Design Rules for Quantum Imaging Devices: Experimental Progress Using CMOS Single Photon Detectors
White Papers This paper reports on experimental progress using SPAD (Single Photon Avalanche Diode) arrays of the design and fabricated in CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology. They have also been particularly successful for intra-chip...
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Bypass the BIOS password by hacking your CMOS settings
White Papers Recover from a CMOS memory-affecting virus or work around a boot-time password by making BIOS forget all it once knew. This downloadable hack from PC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, by Jim Aspinwall, shows you how to bypass the CMOS...
[May 17, 2006, 1:00]
FPGA Implementation of CMOS Imager Demosaic Function
White Papers CMOS imager Bayer-pattern pixel data conversion to RGB pixel data can be readily accomplished using today's low cost FPGA technology devices. Pixels within modern CMOS image sensors are typically arranged in a Bayer color pattern.
[December 4, 2009, 23:00]
RFID Circuit Design With Optimized CMOS Inductor for Monitoring Biomedical Signals
White Papers UHF is chosen for this application mainly because of the practical values of inductance that can be realized in CMOS chip to operate at this operating frequency. RFID is evolving as a major technology enabler for identifying and tracking goods.
[November 20, 2009, 0:25]
A Giga-b/s CMOS Clock and Data Recovery Circuit With a Novel Adaptive Phase Detector
White Papers The circuit is designed based on CMOS 0.25.fabrication process and verified by measurement results. In this paper, a new clock and Data Recovery Circuit (CDR) is proposed for the application of data communication systems requiring GHz-range clock...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter
Downloads Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter: FEATURES: Highly integrated single chip CMOS solution with multiprotocol. Uses digital CMOS technology exclusively, minimizing power.consumption and cost while maximizing reliability.
[April 1, 2005, 8:00]
New Magistr worm at large on the Net
News Like the original worm, Magistr.B features a payload that overwrites hard drives with garbage, erases CMOS and flashes the BIOS on the infected system, rendering the computer unusable. Magistr.B will destroy the contents of the computer's hard...
[September 5, 2001, 9:56]
Design Methods for Attaining IBM System z9 Processor Cycle-Time Goals
White Papers In particular, although the processor-subsystem cycle-time improvement was driven primarily by the technology migration from CMOS 9S (130-nm lithography) for the prior IBM System z990 to CMOS 10S0 (90-nm lithography) for the new system, the...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Exclusive: Transmeta flirting with AMD and 1GHz Pt II
News The TM5600 is produced using .18 micron CMOS technology," the S-1 form states. We expect that this microprocessor may have increased Level 2 cache of up to 1MB, and use more advanced semiconductor technology, moving to a .13 micron CMOS technology...
[August 21, 2000, 9:40]
New York - PC Expo: Toshiba to unveil digital cameras
News The $400 (£245) PDR-5 will use a Super-CMOS sensor instead of the traditional CCD. According to Toshiba, the Super-CMOS technology removes distortion from images and is more affordable than a CCD. The PDR-M1, with a street price of $900 (£552...
[June 15, 1998, 10:25]
The future is very, very small, say Intel
News CMOS, which stands for complementary metal oxide semiconductor, is the technology base for silicon transistors. By 2010, we should have a pretty good idea of what the device that will take us beyond CMOS [is]," said Paolo Gargini, director of...
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
Intel's got fab plans to cut costs
News We're architecting a process where we can do high-powered CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or standard silicon chips), low-powered CMOS, flash and Silicon Germanium," Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger said.
[September 16, 2002, 9:32]
Kodak teams with IBM on next-generation image sensors
News The use of Big Blue's CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) technology will offer improved power consumption and better image quality than that of similar CMOS designs, the companies said. IBM and Eastman Kodak on Thursday announced plans...
[September 17, 2004, 9:25]
A 2 - 11 GHz Fully-Integrated Low Noise Amplifier for WiMAX Systems
White Papers In this paper, a 2 - 11 GHz WiMAX Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is designed and implemented in 0.18-µm CMOS process. The low noise amplifier utilizes a current-reused technique, a simple feedback system and a high-pass input matching network.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Sony Ericsson K700i: a first look
Talkback Is the integrated camera CMOS or CCD type? Up to what resolution level can the integrated camera reach? thanks
[June 29, 2004, 6:00]
Also has fatal hardware problems
Member Review This is a real problem with the motherboard, the power connector, the CMOS reserve battery, etc. No Dan K, look at the Dell support boards. It's just a poor quality laptop.
[July 20, 2005, 15:53]
Staccato: Wireless USB to be big in 2009
News A 65nm (nanometre) CMOS SoC, Ripcord 2 should be in production in the first quarter of 2009, he said. According to Staccato, this was because the 110nm CMOS chip was too big and power-hungry — it had a power consumption of 500mW, around twice that...
[September 2, 2008, 1:00]
DMRC: Distortion-Minimizing Rate Control for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
White Papers The availability of inexpensive CMOS cameras and microphones that can ubiquitously capture multimedia content from the environment is fostering the development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), i.e.distributed systems of wirelessly...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Zero Cost recovery - Part 1
Blog Comment I've been taking out the CMOS battery to get around the password lockouts. I'll chek this out, sounds like it oculd save me a bundle of time. Not always fun on a laptop!
[November 29, 2008, 14:51]



