Big Blue and its semiconductor partners claim the HKMG (high-k/metal gate) technology provides up to 35% better performance and a 45% reduction in power consumption IBM and its development partners—Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and Toshiba—have announced positive

Examine the problems an SOC team faces in integrating what many see as an unfamiliar, particularly delicate mixed-signal-IP block into their already-challenging chip designs. High-speed-serial-data transfer has ancient roots in the worlds of mass storage and communications. But increasingly, high-speed serial I/O is the method of choice for gett

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Infolytica Corporation plans to release a new version of MagNet that will be available in the spring of 2008. Topping the list of new features is a total revamp of core loss calculations. The new core loss calculation method computes the hysteresis plus the anomalous and eddy current losses in the lamination and presents them to the user as two se

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the new Icicle Kit from Actel, the leading supplier of low-power FPGAs and programmable system chips. Leveraging Actel's 5-microwatt (5µW) IGLOO FPGA, the kit showcases the unprecedented low-power advantages, flexible implementation options, and significant battery savings offered by IGLOO FPGAs for portable appl

IBM says that prototypes for 32nm chips will be available starting in Q3 2008. 32nm ICs will, says IBM, be 35 per cent faster than 45nm chips and use between 30 to 50 per cent less power than 45nm chips. IBM says that testing on product library test chip and industry standard microprocessor critical paths has shown performance improvements of u

Arrow has announced the availability of a three-phase motor drive application kit that provides all of the hardware and software needed to rapidly develop energy-efficient variable speed motion control designs based on motors with ratings to 750W. Developed by Infineon, the new application kit can be used as a reference platform for both PMSM (per

The Eurotech QUANTUM PXA270 based SO-DIMM format Single Board Computer module gives OEMs low power, high performance and cost effective computer component for easy integration into their application specific motherboards. Its ready to run potential reduces the work and risk involved with designing the complex processor core and operating system

ADLINK Technology has released the PCIe-FIW62, a PCI Express IEEE1394.b frame grabber designed specifically for area scan colour / monochrome inspection applications, such as PCB inspection and FPD surface inspection. The PCIe-FIW62 supports IEEE 1394.b-based cameras via two high-speed IEEE 1394.b ports, providing point-to-point data transmis

IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® now features full support for the new USB-enabled additions to Luminary Micro's award-winning ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris® microcontroller family, also announced today. At the same time Luminary Micro has announced two new evaluation kits, both featuring a free code size limite