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Category: Semiconductor

Semiconductor/IC

  • Monolithic Photonics

    An interesting development was announced yesterday in the photonics world. In what appears to be a first of its kind, at least commercially, Skorpios announced…

  • Connecting CNTs to Metal

    One of the things about CNTs acting as transistors is that the current flowing through them has to get into and out of the CNT…

  • Will There Ever Be Cake?

    It’s as if there’s this great party coming, and everyone is working at breakneck speed to make sure that all the details are in place…

  • A Fully-Differential Accelerometer

    Accelerometers are used for a wide variety of applications (which we’ll look at more specifically soon). Particularly demanding are automotive applications, not least because of…

  • Altera Partners with Intel for 14nm Tri-Gate FPGAs

    Altera just announced that they’re partnering with Intel to produce FPGAs based on Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process.  This has the potential to give Altera a big…

  • MORE Lawyers, Please!

    In response to Dick Selwood’s recent article “Lawyers, Bankers, and Engineers”, I want to take a different (and perhaps controversial) stand:  We need MORE lawyers.…

  • ISSCC Goes RGB

    I’ve commented in the past about how ISSCC, largely in contrast to other shows, had a distinctly binary color – or lack of color –…

  • A New Verb for Hardware Engineers

    Ever since malloc() (and it’s other-language counterparts), software engineers have had an extra verb that is foreign to hardware engineers: “destroy.” Both software and hardware…

  • More Analog

    There’s been a clear trend over the last decade or so: analog is succumbing to digital. More and more, the modus operandi has been, “Sample…

  • Cloud Computing Deniers

    I’m not a big fan of “cloud computing,” as EEJ readers know. It seems like a stap backwards, to 1970s-era timeshare machines instead of the…