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Category: Analog

Analog/Mixed Signal

  • Design Management Goes Big Data

    What could you do if you had access to a ton of data about semiconductor design? Things like: How designs are structured Which modules are…

  • Optimizing at the Cellphone Antenna

    So you run across an announcement from Imec that they’ve presented a circuit at ISSCC that involves tuning to match changing antenna impedances in cell…

  • Reviewing the $10,000 Ethernet Cable

    AudioQuest sells a $10,000 Ethernet cable. The people who buy this cable know why they need it, and it’s well worth the extra investment. “Sure,”…

  • Some People Get It

    Electronics retailer Best Buy is known for catering to mainstream America, not niche audiophiles. So I was surprised to see the company offering an HDMI…

  • Audio-Grade Bits!

    If you store your music digitally — and don’t we all? — you want audio grade bits. Apparently bits aren’t just bits. An audiophile site…

  • Move over Internet toaster: the wireless pan lid is here

    I am sure that it is not April 1st, so the release I got last week from Nordic Semiconductor has to be legitimate. A company…

  • Faster Extraction from Cadence

    Cadence recently announced new extraction tools, claiming both greater speed (5x) and best-in-class accuracy for full-chip extraction. And what is it that lets them speed…

  • Old-School Analog Outputs

    Today we looked at the role of Freescale’s new FXLN83xxQ accelerometer for analyzing vibrations. But one feature of the accelerometer had me cocking an eyebrow:…

  • Intersil Re-emerges

    When you’re musing over Silicon Valley comings and goings over a beer, it’s not unreasonable to hear the question, “Whatever happened to [place company name…

  • New Hall Effect Sensors Sans Choppers

      My first exposure to the details of sensor design came at ISSCC several years ago. I watched a series of presentations that were, in…