News
Magnetic Solder to Wire 3-D Chips
A new type of solder can be melted and shaped in three dimensions under the force of a weak magnetic field. Using a mag…
Telecommuting
Being efficient while Working Remotely
I am sure many of you have worked off-site and telecommuted for employers using email, chat, and web-based collaboratio…
News
Silicon Nanophotonics to Make Your Gadgets Run Faster and Consume Less
IBM is replacing copper wiring with an avalanche of photons and electrons. They are now transmitting data streams betwe…
Discussion Forum
What is the destiny of the semiconductor industry?
Moore's Law continues to drive an inexorable increase in the number of transistors that can be integrated onto a si…
Updates
New widgets added on Blog sidebar #1
Dear Readers/Subscribers, Today we have added 3 New Widgets to 1. Comment live on topics of your interest without the …
VoIP
Blog - How to Spot Suspicious VoIP signals
One way to steal data is to embed it in a voice call over the internet. Now network engineers are learning how to spot …
Optical Switching
Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry
Specially designed molecules could lead to all-optical data switches that could make the Internet far faster. New mol…
Solar Cells
Making More Solar Cells from Silicon
A new manufacturing process could cut the cost of making crystalline silicon wafers for solar cells by 80 percent. The …
Press Passes
Bloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC
The New York City Police Department announced Tuesday that bloggers and others who publish on the Web will now be eligi…
Forecast
Chip market boom makes analyst hike forecast
Bruce Diesen, analyst with Carnegie ASA (Oslo, Norway), has raised his forecast for 2010 chip market growth from 13 per…
Romba
Hacked Roomba will google your house
Swedish hackers have put together the GåågleBot: 'a 'home crawler' consisting of a vacuum roomba with an on…
Wireless
Building high-speed wireless in Afghanistan out of garbage
Volunteers in Afghanistan -- both locals and foreigners from the MIT Bits and Atoms lab -- have been building out a wir…
WiFi
Nokia Ovi store reveals Skype :-)
Attention all Nokia owners with 3G and WiFi connectivity: Today Nokia has added Skype to it Ovi arsena l and foreshadow…
TechOnline
How to Inexpensively Design an ASIC in 5 Weeks
If you have ever designed a standard cell ASIC from scratch, you probably still have the scars to show for it. Designin…
TechOnline
Reduce Power, Area and Routing Congestion
This paper , using an example design, demonstrates how to meet challenging performance, latency and bandwidth goals by …
White Papers
How System-Level Trade-Offs Drive Data Converter Decisions
For both analog-to"digital converters (ADC) and digital-to"analog converters (DAC), system-level specificatio…
TechOnline
Improve Product Quality and Reliability with In-System Diagnostics
Product quality and reliability are first-order design requirements for any product development. This document describ…
TechOnline
How to Create a Touchless Slider for Human Interface Applications
Imagine being able to control electronics products at home and in the office, not with a direct touch but with the swee…
TechOnline
LTE-Advanced Technology Introduction
Since the year 2010 commercialization of the LTE technology is taking place. At the same time further enhancements of t…
White Papers
Show Me the Next-Generation HDMI
The first part of this white paper explores the basic concepts behind HDMI, the markets it serves and its leadership ro…