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The Week In Review: Sept. 27
By Ed Sperling - 27 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Applied Materials shook up the equipment market, announcing a deal to buy Tokyo Electron for about $9.3 billion in stock. The combination of No. 2 Applied and No. 3 TEL in that market equals a new No. 1, surpassing Dutch giant ASML in terms of revenue. Mentor Graphics rolled out a new versiion of its computational fluid dynamics product, adding Monte Carlo radiation modeling... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 25
By Ed Sperling - 25 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Mentor’s Michael Ford has replaced his dingy bathroom lights with LEDs, and now he literally can see all the stuff that needs to be fixed. Sound familiar? Synopsys’ Mick Posner pulls out the old bread and drink mnemonic for which water glass is yours at a crowded table. But what do you do when someone else gets it wrong? “Excuse me, that’s my FPGA prototyping board.�... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Sept. 24
By Mark LaPedus - 24 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

LEGO AFM Students from the University College London (UCL), Tsinghua University and Peking University have built an atomic force microscope (AFM) or nanoscope using toy LEGOs. The AFM, dubbed LEGO2NANO, costs less than $500 to make. In contrast, traditional AFMs cost $100,000 or more. The system was made using LEGOs, Arduino controllers, 3D printed parts and consumer electronics. [captio... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 24
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Printing nanostructures with self-assembling material A multi-institutional team of engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago and Hanyang University in Korea has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. The approach combines top-down advanced ink-jet printing technology... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 24
By Ann Mutschler - 24 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Generating electricity from sewage Stanford University researchers have come up with a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring “wired microbes” as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste. Calling their invention a ‘microbial battery,’ the researchers hope one day it will be used in places such as sewage treatment p... » read more

The Week In Review: Sept. 23
By Mark LaPedus - 23 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus For some time, Apple’s iPhones have incorporated a separate RF switch and diversity switch from Peregrine Semiconductor (PSMI). The switches are based on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) variant called silicon-on-sapphire (SOS). Murata takes Peregrine’s RF switches and integrates them into a module. Doug Freedman, an analyst with RBC Capital, said Apple is no longer using PSMI�... » read more

The Week In Review: Sept. 20
By Ed Sperling - 20 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling It’s reference flow update time as TSMC prepares to roll out both finFETs and stacked die capabilities, and advanced capabilities at 20nm. The foundry updated its reference flows to include tools and IP from all of the Big Three EDA companies. It added Mentor Graphics’ place and route and DFM tools in its 16nm finFET reference flow, and added a slew of Mentor tools, inclu... » read more

Boson Hunting
By Ed Sperling - 20 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling It’s not the “God particle” or anything even remotely connected to the formation of the universe. But in particle physics, the powerful forces that keep the tiny particles in an atom confined to a very small space are now coming into much better focus. [caption id="attachment_5772" align="alignnone" width="640"] Source: Cern.ch[/caption] The reason is a combination o... » read more

System Bits: Sept. 17
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Multicore memory management According to MIT researchers, it may be time to let software rather than hardware manage high-speed on-chip memory caches. Traditionally, managing the caches has required fairly simple algorithms that can be hard-wired into the chips but as multiple cores in SoCs proliferate, cache management becomes much more difficult. As such, MIT’s Department of Electric... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 17
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Harvesting energy from light In a finding they believe could improve technologies for generating electricity from solar energy and lead to more efficient optoelectronic devices used in communications, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light. They said the process is much more efficient than conven... » read more

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