Q&A: Nvidia’s Dally on 3-D ICs, China, cloud computing

Bill Dally (shown), Nvidia’s chief scientist calls for a 3-D memory champion, more U.S. spending on computer research and an Ethernet alternative for data centers. Read Full Story

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Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to be given an IP address and linked to the Internet ... Read Full Story

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Intel's FinFETs are less fin and more triangle

Reverse engineering and analysis consultancy Chipworks Inc. has posted cross-sections of parts of the 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor that has revealed that the FinFETs, which Intel calls tri-gate ... Read Full Story

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The basics of testing op amps, part 4:Testing op amps requires stable test loops

To achieve stable test loops, you need to use the right capacitor values. A spreadsheet can help you find those values. Two loop-compensation methods will work, but one will achieve loop stability ... Read Full Story

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ST sues InvenSense alleging patent infringement

STMicrolectronics NV has filed a complaint in the Northern District of California alleging that InvenSense Inc., a supplier of motion tracking ...

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Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market

Warren East, CEO of processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc, has said he expects companies making processors based on the ARM cores will take between ...

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Living virus generates electricity

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs have discovered a way to genetically engineer a living virus to be piezoelectric, enabling ...

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Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor'

A research team from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Yongin, Korea) has proposed a novel three-terminal device that could overcome ...

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Who knows if the industry has a viable means to mass produce/fabricate this barristor. I guess ...

NASA, commercial space industy brace for critical test

The upcoming launch of a new rocket to the International Space Station will test NASA's strategy of relying on commercial carriers to launch cargo and ...

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If the commercial crew effort works, and will know a lot more if SpaceX launches on Saturday ...

Weightless standard for IoT outlined in book

Professor William Webb, CTO and cofounder of Neul, has written a 200-page book outlining the Weightless standard for machine-to-machine communications ...

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HiWave embeds haptic response in flat panels

HiWave Technologies has launched a touch feedback platform for control panels to be integrated in everyday household appliances.

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Interesting!!

Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage

Chip foundry United Microelectronics Corp. has been the leading beneficiary of 28-nm chip supply shortages at the leading foundry and rival Taiwan ...

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UMC would love to have a capacity problem right now. They are surely dumping their spend into 28nm ...

ESilicon set to reap rewards of Asian gamble

Jack Harding, CEO of design services provider eSilicon, says the company's move to Asia is beginning to pay off as it helps customers navigate two ...

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Hybridization of processors increasingly rapidly, says report

Hybrid processors with two or more different types of processor cores accounted for half of the $111 billion processor market in 2011, according to a ...

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Gary Smith: The Man Who “Cried ESL & Virtual Prototype” gets the last laugh

Many years ago and in a Galaxy that seems far far away, my buddy and journalism mentor Richard Goering teamed up to provide EDA coverage for EE ...

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Mike, great to see your byline on EE Times again! And I second your nominations; Kaufman recognition ...

Gearing Up for DAC – Verification demos

This entry is the first in the what to see at DAC blogs. It includes listing about the demos that companies will be showing in the area of ...

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Electric Imp's cool versus Cambridge's Neul in IoT

Comparing a couple of leaders in the Internet of Things domain - Electric Imp Inc. and Neul Ltd. - shows the same bases get covered but with different ...

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@fotoguru2 Neatly done. You make a good point and so pithily. AND we like apples AND pies. I ...

"Hi, I’m your data; can you hear me now?"

Extracting insight from mounds of data may benefit from using old techniques

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Believe it. I used to work in radiopaging sending digital data packets and during development would ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – May 16th

Mathworks, MIPS, Imperas, Cadence, Sigrity, Kilopass, EVE, Carbon and ams made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

Some naysayers argue that China can't innovate and that the Chinese economy is bound to "hit the wall" like Japan's export-driven economy did in the ...

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It took awhile for the motive all of this positive spin and coverage on China to sink in on me. EET ...

Plastic doesn't pollute, people do

Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but a tradeshow held last week in Italy aimed to mold a different ...

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The problem gets even worse when it comes to so-called "bio-plastics" because then people think it's ...

Test equipment market snapshot

Grab your lunch and head to Frost&Sullivan’s webinar tomorrow, May 16th on the test equipment market.

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New companies at DAC for the first time in 2012

This is the first of a series of blogs preparing you for DAC this year. This one lists the new companies exhibiting for the first time...

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Hi, Brian! A quick clarification for Space Codesign ... #417 is our demo suite, our exhibit will be ...

Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.

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This is all completely ridiculous; we've got here a bunch of very clever people and expensive ...

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Design Considerations in Adding USB Communications to Embedded Applications	4/22/2012
Choosing the Optimal Source Measurement Unit Instrument for Your Test and Measurement Application	4/23/2012
Redefining a New State-of-the-Art in Microampere Current-Sense Amplifiers	4/1/2012
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Fundamentals of Instrument Control	5/17/2012
Fundamentals of Energy Harvesting	3/28/2012
Fundamentals of Increasing SoC Performance and Efficiency	3/2/2012
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Wizard Filters for all using the built-in hardware digital filter in a programmable SoC	3/8/2012
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March 26, 2012 DESIGN West 2012: March 26-29, 2012

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March 29, 2012 Black Hat Summit, March 29, 2012 at DESIGN West

March 28, 2012 The 2012 Android Summit, A DESIGN West Summit

March 27, 2012 MultiCore DevCon - A DESIGN West Summit

March 27, 2012 EDN's Designing with LEDs: March 27, 2012

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Circuit Design and Simulation in your Browser!! Spicy Schematics Web Version

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Collection of interesting resources on C/C++ programming

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I constantly study the Web regarding new articles on C/C++/C++11 programming. If I find them interesting, I post links to them in

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All about PVS-Studio

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PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C/C++/C++11 applications. The PVS-Studio tool integrates into the Visual Studio

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