Brian Fuller

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Brian Fuller, Editor In Chief at ARM, is the former EE Times Editor In Chief.

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Semiconductor Memory Aids
By Brian Fuller - 15 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller It's not hard to forget that semiconductor memory remains one of the most relentless challenges in system design. It sometimes doesn’t get the ink that sexier semiconductor design topics do, but it’s there. Always. Twenty years ago this year, University of Virginia computer scientists William Wulf and Sally McKee published a paper that popularized the term semiconductor ... » read more

The New Hybrid World: Vision And Reality
By Brian Fuller - 18 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

SAN FRANCISCO—You know the famous scene from the movie “The Graduate,” in which a young Dustin Hoffman is offered investment advice by a businessman. “I want to say just one word to you…just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.” Today, Hoffman’s character Benjamin Braddock might hear two words: “Integrated objects.” At least that’s how Ross Bringans from PARC sees... » read more

Deja Vu All Over Again
By Brian Fuller - 19 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller I’m sure you’ve had that experience, at least once in your life, where you’re walking down the street, you pass someone and think, “Where do I know that guy from? Looks soooo familiar….” Well, here in this spot, I’m that guy. You’re looking at that incredibly sincere mug shot nearby and thinking, “Where do I know that guy from? Didn’t he sell me a really ... » read more

Slow Adoption for ESL
By Brian Fuller - 25 Mar, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller It’s been more than a decade since electronic system level (ESL) abstraction started to gain traction in EDA. It’s been more than a few years since the industry began to plan for the day when the benefits of embracing C-language approaches to design description and validation would find designers churning out massively complex and profitable designs while sitting in lawn ch... » read more

Grappling With Graphene
By Brian Fuller - 11 Mar, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller Silicon CMOS is a tough act to follow. The workhorse building block for the world’s electronics has been delivering for system designers for a half century. Despite hand-wringing over its apparent scalability limits, it shows only vague signs of slowing down. For nearly as many years, it seems, the next great material or alternative to silicon CMOS has popped into the indu... » read more

FPGA Vendors Throw Kitchen Sink at Power-Consumption Issues
By Brian Fuller - 10 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller In the storied history of semiconductors, each era finds vendors generally attaching their strategy to a trendy application segment to differentiate themselves. For years, IC vendors were “computer companies.” Then they were in the “communications” business and more recently they were all about “consumer.” But the evolution of technology has forced a re-assessm... » read more

Upgrading the 100-year-old grid, one standard at a time
By Brian Fuller - 10 Jun, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller The nation’s power grid hasn’t been upgraded in a century, but suddenly there’s a sense of urgency. In high-profile meetings from Washington to Santa Clara in the past two months, industry executives, scientists, engineers and government officials have ratcheted up the dialogue about modernizing how energy is generated, distributed and used. The movement, helped by a... » read more

The Gleaning Power of Piezo
By Brian Fuller - 13 May, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller The inventor and green-tech missionary Trevor Baylis walked 100 miles across an African desert nearly 10 years ago to prove piezoelectric technology could power a cell phone. It was an interesting story that quickly faded from memory, as the technology was deemed clever but impractical. Enter Elizabeth Redmond and Andrew Katz, who have taken Baylis’ inspiration and piezo’s... » read more

Home Sweet (Power-Hogging) Home?
By Brian Fuller - 13 May, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller Numbers, history and technology are on a collision course inside your home. Consider the numbers: The big picture points to an even bigger opportunity for smart system design that can reduce power in and out of the chip. Since 1982, growth in peak demand for electricity has exceeded transmission growth by almost 25% every year. Yet spending on research and development �... » read more

Making Batteries Better
By Brian Fuller - 15 Apr, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Brian Fuller The world has changed dramatically in the 209 years since Alessandro Volta hunched over his table by candlelight and figured out how to capture energy in his voltaic pile, the first electric battery. What has changed little, however, is the battery itself. Since Volta’s conception, the battery has remained a cell with negative and positive electrodes, an electrolyte, and... » read more

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