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Maskless copper deposition could slash metallization costs in ICs EDN Whereas much rocket science goes into making the minimum-geometry metal lines at the bottom of the interconnect stack on an IC, no one pays much attention to making the upper metal layers on which the spacing is relaxed, the metal is thick, and some processes still use aluminum. A relatively new idea from Replisaurus could address those problems.
Tanner EDA announces router, layout-device generator EDN At the Design Automation Conference, which took place in July in San Francisco, Tanner EDA introduced the SDL (schematic-driven-layout) interactive autorouter and the DevGen layout-device generator. The company also announced that it is shipping Version 14.10 of its Tanner Tools Pro and HiPer Silicon products, which serve full-custom analog and MEMS (microelectromechanical-system) design.
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IBM Power7 architecture illustrates some issues for the rest of us EDN By balancing execution speed, memory bandwidth and latency, and coherency overhead the Power7 architects have attempted to make possible systems that will scale up to 256 CPU cores without experiencing a sharp drop-off in performance-per-core. As such, the Power7 is not only a major stride in microprocessors for large systems, but a textbook on the lessons SOC designers will need to study in co...
ASIC demultiplexes to multiple displays from one DisplayPort signal EDN HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) and DVI (digital-video interface) transmit video data as continuous bit streams, whereas DisplayPort transmits the data in packets and allows for asymmetric two-way transfers. If your application is simply connecting a graphics chip to a display, packetizing creates a lot of overhead for little real benefit.
Rotary-encoder IC meets all auto specs EDN The AS5163 magnetic-rotary-encoder IC from austriamicrosystems satisfies the stringent automotive-IC-protection requirements in angle-sensing applications. The device provides overvoltage protection as high as 27V, and reverse-polarity protection withstands –18V reverse polarity at the supply pins.
Virage Logic intends to acquire ARC International EDN The acquisition would add configurable CPU cores and the company's development environment, and perhaps more significantly, several powerful clusters of application-specific hardware and software IP to the Virage portfolio, complementing the company's strengths in foundation digital IP, memory IP, and high-speed interface IP.
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Dark side of the light EDN When a new design is exhibiting strange timing bugs, it can be difficult to decide where to begin your debugging. So, set it up on a testbench, hook it up to an oscilloscope, turn on a desk lamp, and get to work.
Iron particle in nanotube may offer archival storage EDN Researchers continue to seek out some plausible application for carbon nanotubes. The latest effort, by a team at the University of California'Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University, has discovered that a multiwall nanotube containing a particle of iron might just be an effective archival storage device.
Start-up offers dynamically reconfigurable logic technology EDN Start-up Akya is offering IP (intellectual property) to allow IC designers to include reconfigurable logic on their ASSPs (application-specific standard products) or ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits). The company delivers both reconfigurable-logic fabric and IP blocks to execute commonly required functions on that fabric.
