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Journey To The Center Of The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 14 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

From the outside it looks like business as usual, but the race for board seats on the GSA has become particularly competitive this year. GSA originally was created as an organization for fabless companies, but you wouldn’t know that looking at its membership roster. It has evolved into a who’s who of the entire semiconductor supply chain, including everyone from foundries like TSMC and... » read more

The Power Of 3D
By Cheryl Ajluni - 14 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni Much to the dismay of anyone who recently splurged on a new Blu-ray disk player or flat-panel HDTV, 3D stereoscopic content has become the talk of the town or, in this case, the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Sure, we’ve been down this road before. After all, 3D is nothing new. But it now appears ready to explode into the home in the form of 3D television (Figure 1). Bol... » read more

The Ins And Outs Of Power Conversion
By Ed Sperling - 10 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Cheryl Ajluni Power conversion is a general term that refers to a system or device producing an output that is different than its input. It can assume many forms—everything from an inverter to an isolated power supply, uninterruptable power supply (UPS), or AC/DC converter. Power conversion, like low-power design, is fairly commonplace these days. Nevertheless, recent advances in digital ... » read more

Greener Data Centers
By Ed Sperling - 10 Dec, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling For decades the race inside the data center was all about performance. If you upgraded from an IBM Series/370 mainframe to a Series/380 your applications ran faster. And if you upgraded your PC server from a Pentium II to a Pentium 4 you got significantly better performance. The race now is to reduce the number of servers altogether, to lower the cooling costs per server ra... » read more

Why Intel Is Settling With AMD
By Ed Sperling - 13 Nov, 2009 - Comments: 0

There’s more to the Intel-AMD settlement than meets the eye. While Intel will be paying out $1.2 billion to AMD as part of the settlement—and that’s a large chunk of money in anyone’s book—it’s a relatively small price to pay when it’s amortized over 10 years and can open the door to even bigger markets for Intel. And that’s just what this is, a down payment on the future. ... » read more

The FPGA Alternative
By Various Writers - 31 Oct, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Geoffrey James Until a few years ago, SoC designers focused almost exclusively on ASICs. While it was theoretically possible to create an SoC design for an FPGA, the programmable chips were too bulky and pricey to be useful for much more than prototyping. Today, however, designers are increasingly turning to FPGAs for their SOC targets for production systems. Why the sudden upsurge in So... » read more

Outsourcing’s New Face
By Ed Sperling - 29 Oct, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling As the semiconductor industry digs out from one of the worst downturns in decades, the business of semiconductor design and engineering is changing. While the architecture and features are still being developed by chip companies, the actual work of developing the chip increasingly is being done by third parties. Outsourcing is hardly new concept in business. In the early pa... » read more

Battery Progress Inches Forward
By Ed Sperling - 15 Oct, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Chip companies that have been betting the future on better battery technology and holding off on the often painful process of reducing voltage should probably start rethinking their plans. Battery technology is not expected to improve by more than 3% per year, and even that may slow. Compared with the chip side, there are no breakthrough materials such as halfnium or techno... » read more

Defining Reliability In Low-Power Designs
By Ed Sperling - 15 Oct, 2009 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler Having a clear understanding of what reliability means for a particular low-power application can make a significant difference when it comes to communicating with engineering team members and customers. Is reliability simply a question of how long a device can run without errors? And what happens to reliability when power modeling, verification and other design tec... » read more

Designing Systems For Power And Throughput
By Ed Sperling - 25 Sep, 2009 - Comments: 0

  By Ed Sperling The most energy being consumed inside of processors is no longer for computation. It’s stuff that’s most chip designers think about after the design is completed, such as communication inside and outside the chip, managing those communications and the power levels across the chip. Research from Intel Labs, unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum this week, show that... » read more

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