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Point cooling advances for hot ICs

Engineers have for years been suggesting using thermoelectric films to cool hot ICs because the films develop a temperature difference between their surfaces when you apply a voltage across them. The problems of getting the film next to the IC, establishing ... External Source

Mitigating tapeout risk

Alleviate the risks inherent in tapeout by implementing automated sign-off, partnering with foundries, performing design application checking and statistical sensitivity analysis during physical verification, and targeting older process-technology no... External Source

GSM/GPRS power amplifiers use CMOS technology

The IC Insider: Reverse engineering the Axiom AX502 CMOS power amplifier. External Source

Lattice launches midrange FPGAs at cellular and access networks

Lattice's ECP3 family begins to look almost application-specific in its details. External Source

DSP combines fixed- and floating-point operation

Texas Instruments’ TMS320C6743 low-power DSP features both high-precision, wide-dynamic-range, floating-point operations and higher-performance, lower-power, fixed-point operations in the same device. External Source

FPGA serial I/O hits 11.3 Gbps

In the latest additions to its Stratix range of FPGAs, Altera has incorporated serial-data transceivers that support signal rates as high as 11.3 Gbps. The company envisages the Stratix IV GT’s parts finding applications in 40- or 100-Gbps systems. ... External Source

Dangerous games

Budding engineers benefit from physically challenging games. External Source

Customizable microcontroller, $75,000 NRE costs target 10,000-unit applications

Atmel’s AT91CAP7L standard-product microcontroller has as many as 200,000 gates of MCPF (metal-programmable-cell fabric) that you can use to implement proprietary customer IP (intellectual property), hardware accelerators, additional processor ... External Source

EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards

EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete ... External Source

Floating-point microcontroller doubles performance

Targeting the needs of high-performance applications, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C2834x Delfino controllers offer twice the floating-point performance of previous TMS320C2000 devices. External Source

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