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Ensuring Design Reliability with Design Patterns
Circuit reliability verification has become a crucial step in IC design. Reliability requirements are not only growing in all market segments, including automotive/transportation, medical, mobile/wireless,…
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Bug-B-Gone!
What do Netflix movies, embedded programmers, and Raymond Chandler mysteries all have in common? More on that later. For now, let’s look at a new…
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The FPGA is Half Full
Let’s say you are looking for a new house for your family. You’ve got a couple of contenders. One has four bedrooms, three baths, a…
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A New Variable Capacitor
It’s like coming back to a place you used to know and finding that everything has changed. A few years ago, when MEMS was just…
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What Are You Buying?
It looks so beguiling – on-line access to your favourite software so you never have to worry about updates, patches, new releases, whatever. The consumer…
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Spansion Jumps On the ARM Bandwagon
Back in May, we told you that Spansion had acquired all the microcontroller and analog assets from Fujitsu, marking the Japanese company’s exit from the…
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Power Puzzle
We all learned about power in EE101, right? You know, voltage times current – bam, we’re done. Easy as Ohm’s Law. Of course that was…
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SuVolta Hits Production
We noted recently the slight hesitation taking place in the rush to FinFETs. Some folks are taking another look at FD-SOI as a way of…
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Modern Launch
There are certain things that we all do without questioning. Ways and means have evolved on how to do them, and so we do them…
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A Quixotic Search for Answers
A seemingly innocuous-looking news release about a new product sent this writer on a months-long quest for truth, justice and the technology way, as Superman…