IrDA standard increases data transfer fourfold
IrDA standard increases data transfer fourfold The Infrared Data Association (Walnut Creek, CA) has announced a high-speed specification that allows transmission rates
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Copper catches on with more IC vendors
Copper catches on with more IC vendors Copper interconnections in place of the usual aluminum is no longer exclusively an IBM technique for IC fabrication.Continue
VHDL extensions advance analog/mixed-signal design
VHDL extensions advance analog/mixed-signal design At the recent International Hardware Description Conference in Santa Clara, CA, VHDL International (Boulder, CO)
Enclosure horizons broaden
Enclosure horizons broaden Once little more than sheet metal that housed equipment, today's enclosures are likely to include a power supply and cooling, as
Microcavity devices transform optical circuits
Microcavity devices transform optical circuits The ability to construct optical devices on a single wafer will change the way many optical circuits are designed
New protocols double VMEbus bandwidth
New protocols double VMEbus bandwidth Motorola Computer Group (Tempe, AZ) has announced it will implement the 2eVME and 2eSST VMEbus protocols currently being developed
Vapor-spreading heat sink promises to keep future chips cool
Vapor-spreading heat sink promises to keep future chips cool Today's smaller, denser, hotter-running semiconductors often require heat sinks larger than the devices
Embedded processor core configures in hours
Embedded processor core configures in hours Microprocessor cores have been a staple of system-on-a-chip designs for years, with ARM and Mips architectures appearing
Industry alliance looks beyond PCI
Industry alliance looks beyond PCI Looking to a time when the PCI bus will prove inadequate, the Future I/O Alliance held its first developer's conferenceContinue
Choosing a DSP for low-power designs
Choosing a DSP for low-power designs Picking the optimal processor for a low-power design requires careful analysis of both the DSP hardware and software