Low-Power And RF Design Heighten Signal-Integrity Concerns


By Ellen Konieczny As active devices and interconnect wires shrink and are placed closer together with the march of Moore’s Law, signal integrity is becoming a huge concern. If it is not maintained, a design’s future may be marred by lower yields, unreliable performance, and failure to work efficiently—if at all. For low-power and radio-frequency (RF) designs, which are being prod... » read more

Pulling Power Out Of Thin Air


By Cheryl Ajluni It wasn’t all that long ago that voice communication via a traditional landline was the norm. At the time, consumers would have been hard pressed to imagine a world in which anytime, anywhere communication (voice and data) with a device no bigger than the human hand was possible. Many of those same consumers might today find it hard to conceive of a world in which their... » read more

Making Sense Out Of Convergence


By Ed Sperling Technology convergence and market consolidation have always gone hand in hand, although not necessarily in ways everyone expects. The confluence of video and audio was first exhibited by AT&T at the 1964 World’s Fair. The rather crude videophone demonstration promised a future where people could actually see the person they were talking with. Fast forward 45 years and... » read more

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