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Earnings estimates for Intel, IR, others still too high, analysts say 1/6/2009
FBR expects a 25% peak-to-trough revenue compression during this downcycle, in part because of component distributors de-stocking inventory. But FBR analysts project a fundamental bottom should form in the first half of 2009 and that distributors will replenish component inventories sometime this summer, providing an industry catalyst in the second half.
Micrel lays off, lowers Q4 estimates 1/6/2009
ISSCC papers look toward high-definition in your handset 1/2/2009
Evolving IP market spawns a raft of new approaches 1/1/2009
Van Houten resigns NXP CEO post, former Agere exec takes seat 12/31/2008 8:03:00 AM
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Analog Design
What’s in your SAR-ADC application?
12/18/2008
Driving a SAR ADC with an amplifier seems like a simple task. Not so fast. You are not finished until you accommodate the effects of the ADC-input charge injection on your amplifier.
Low-power wireless performance starts with CMOS elegance 1/5/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Prototyping techniques: things to know before pulling the trigger 12/5/2008
Visualizing differential crosstalk 12/5/2008
Power Integrations updates its power supply design software
Touch screens, amplifiers, energy-harvesting and lithium ion batteries
IC Design
Low-power wireless performance starts with CMOS elegance
1/5/2009
The IC Insider delves into an ISM transceiver implemented in standard CMOS, revealing that interference-free operation in this crowded swath of spectrum begins with attention to layout details.
ISSCC papers look toward high-definition in your handset 1/2/2009
Describing the foundations for 22-nm CMOS logic and SRAM 12/30/2008
IEDM papers trace device-level path toward DRAM at 22 nm 12/23/2008
IBM claims graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies 12/19/2008
Ambarella's unique view on the future of digital cameras leads to a unique view on SoC architecture
A farewell to 2008, and an offer of hope
Processor-based Design
Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy
12/18/2008
Executive discusses support for embedded developers, general-purpose versus application-specific products, trends in embedded-processor integration, and software.
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy 12/18/2008
Simple microcontroller-temperature measurement uses only a diode and a capacitor 12/5/2008
Get hardware fast: Use your evaluation kit to build a testbench 11/27/2008
Remember what's important
Modern candlewicks: An example of structural processing
Applied System Design
Mysterious data errors
12/18/2008
Tales From The Cube: Input of 12 sequential 1s causes a data-collection system to output garbled data. This looks like a job for 12-gauge AWG wire.
EoPDH as an alternative for delivering rich media applications 12/23/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Automotive embedded development and testing 12/18/2008
All analog, all the time 12/5/2008
$39 USB tool eases real-time development
Deploying intelligent networks
Power Management
Thermoelectric-power-generation kit eases power-evaluation tasks
12/19/2008
The eTEG (embedded thermoelectric generator) power-generation-evaluation kit from Nextreme eases designers’ power-evaluation tasks in applications such as energy harvesting.
Solar’s bright future 12/18/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
TI to team with Fulton on developing wireless-power-transfer-control ICs 12/8/2008
Flexible charge pump offers another means of producing electricity 12/5/2008
PHEV on sale now at your local BYD auto dealer (in China, anyway)
Bulb-within-a-bulb protects and hides CFL spiral
Consumer Electronics Design
CES 2009: High-def video predictions refined
1/6/2009
Although tape's days as a storage medium seem limited, Canon has just introduced one more tape-based HD camera. Meanwhile, Ambarella announced a chip family that indicates the fast improvement pace that H.264-centric silicon is on as it strives to overtake legacy MPEG-2.
ISSCC papers look toward high-definition in your handset 1/2/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Bias and opinion in tech and in life 12/5/2008
Tzero promises demo of 1080p60 wireless HDMI using UWB 12/3/2008
CES 2009: The Articles Of Impartment
ReadyNAS Spindown: I'm No Longer Wearing A Frown (But The NAS May Still Be Going Down)
Communications/Network Design
IBM claims graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies
12/19/2008
With a top-gate design and a gate length 150 nm, IBM achieved a cut-off frequency of 26 GHz for its graphene transistors.
Hardware and software approaches implement multiple radios 12/18/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Designing protective circuitry for DSL loops: Beware of pitfalls 12/5/2008
Tzero promises demo of 1080p60 wireless HDMI using UWB 12/3/2008
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
Know your ceramic capacitor, part two
11/27/2008
Class II and Class III ceramic capacitor advantages, liabilities, and application considerations.
Flared-pin heat sinks use natural convection to cool "green" applications 1/5/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Linear wind-power meter compensates for temperature 11/13/2008
Circuits drive single-coil latching relays 11/13/2008
Power Integrations HiperPLC: Controller IC combines resonant controller with high-voltage drivers, PFC controller
Optek Technology OCV100: Autocalibration-design kit interfaces with optoelectronic-sensor components
Test & Measurement
Measure power-supply-loop transfer 12/5/2008
Using a function generator and an oscilloscope, you can measure gain and phase shift versus frequency in a power supply's control loop.
Scopes achieve 80G-sample/sec acquisition, bandwidth to 30 MHz 1/6/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/18/2008
Mysterious data errors 12/18/2008
30-GHz signal analyzer offers 40-GHz bandwidth 11/27/2008
A technical solution to voting problems?
More engineers—not financiers
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
Solar’s bright future
12/18/2008
Will solar technology remain a hot issue even with a global economic crisis at hand? Photovoltaic experts weigh in on the technology, opportunities, and future of solar technologies.
Electronic Business' most-clicked-on 2008 articles and analysis 12/30/2008
ASML cuts 1,000 jobs, lowers guidance 12/19/2008
Toshiba slashes 30% of NAND production, extends end-of-year shutdowns 12/16/2008
Mattson cuts more jobs as iSuppli reports 2009 will hit new equipment spending low 12/10/2008
Capital spending: can it get worse?
Buy a house, get a free solar roof
Business Strategy
Evolving IP market spawns a raft of new approaches
1/1/2009
Whether it’s by asserting patent rights or defending against so-called trolls, entrepreneurs and investors are trying new IP business models.
Earnings estimates for Intel, IR, others still too high, analysts say 1/6/2009
Micrel lays off, lowers Q4 estimates 1/6/2009
Van Houten resigns NXP CEO post, former Agere exec takes seat 12/31/2008 8:03:00 AM
Electronic Business' most-clicked-on 2008 articles and analysis 12/30/2008
Electronics Supply Chain
Notebook PC shipments exceeded desktops for first time in Q3, iSuppli reports
12/23/2008
Calling the notebook shipments a "watershed event in the history of the industry," the market researcher is celebrating the data as not only a major sea change in the PC world, but also as a bucking of the current economic trends that have seen electronics spending squeezed.
Earnings estimates for Intel, IR, others still too high, analysts say 1/6/2009
Electronic Business' most-clicked-on 2008 articles and analysis 12/30/2008
Demand for mid-level processors shrinking, Converge reports 12/19/2008
Excess inventory likely to triple in Q4, could delay semiconductor industry recovery, iSuppli reports 12/17/2008
IPC happy with proposed ROHS revisions, are you?
Fairchild notes distributors reduced inventories as it lowers Q4 guidance
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Blogs
Power Integrations updates its power supply design software from Anablog
01/06/2009
CES 2009: The Articles Of Impartment from Brian's Brain
01/06/2009
Ambarella's unique view on the future of digital cameras leads to a unique view on SoC architecture from Practical Chip Design
01/05/2009
Direct integration to the antenna from FPGA Gurus
01/05/2009
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Product fEEd
Power Integrations HiperPLC: Controller IC combines resonant controller with high-voltage drivers, PFC controller 01/06/2009
Optek Technology OCV100: Autocalibration-design kit interfaces with optoelectronic-sensor components 01/06/2009
Maxim Integrated Products MAX16834: High-brightness LED driver claims 92% efficiency 01/05/2009
Lumex AstraLED RGB: 3W LED provides a full-color output 01/05/2009
Fairchild Semiconductor FOD410: Snubberless triac-driver optocoupler reduces standby power 12/19/2008
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