EE Times Design News

Salary survey, Analog Devices lead weekly story ranking

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:20:00 EST

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Nov. 29, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Saturday, Dec. 5. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on a particular article.

Researchers develop microfluidic liquid antenna

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:26:00 EST

Liquid antennas housed in microfluidic channels encased in plastic enable conformable, ultra-reliable radio frequency (RF) antennas according to North Carolina State University and University of Utah researchers.

PicoChip, Lime team on femtocell reference design

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:53:00 EST

Lime Microsystems and PicoChip Designs have announced they are collaborating to develop a reference design for 3G and 4G femtocells.

Presented By:

NEC

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October 'actual' chip sales up 14% on a year ago

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:26:00 EST

October's global market for semiconductors was $22.05 billion, up 13.8 percent on the $19.38 billion sales recorded in October 2008, according to "actual" data from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization.

Samsung plans to rival TSMC in foundry, says report

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:51:00 EST

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to double its production of chips for others, so called foundry production, every year until it rivals market leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to a Chosun Ilbo report that referenced an un-named company spokesman as its source.

Panelists question fabless model viability

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:40:00 EST

Is fabless still fabulous? In a panel session at the IP-ESC 2009 Conference this week in Grenoble, France, panelists discussed the evolution of semiconductor business models and confronted views on whether the fabless model is dead or alive and kicking.

Presented By: NEC

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 05:40:00 EST

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Mentor, Magma beat targets; outlooks disappoint

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:31:00 EST

EDA vendors Mentor Graphics and Magma Design Automation reported quarterly revenue which exceeded Wall Street estimates and their own sales targets, but both offered outlooks for the current quarter that fell short of analysts' expectations.

Is design and reuse an impossible dream, ask panelists

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:03:00 EST

A panel session at the IP-ESC 2009 Conference this week in Grenoble, France, examined IP design and reuse from a business and technology perspective and urged IP and SoC providers to reach compromises.

Osram introduces first OLED lighting panel

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:15:00 EST

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) has said it is introducing its first OLED lighting panel, a unit called Orbeos.

Presented By:

NEC

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AMD co-founder joins board of Scottish startup

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:55:00 EST

John Carey, co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in 1969 and lead investor in Integrated Device Technology Inc. in 1980, has joined Elonics Ltd. (Livingston, Scotland) as a non-executive director.

ASML, ST intensify work on 28-nm patterning

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:09:00 EST

ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has announced a project with STMicroelectronics to accelerate 28-nm and 22-nm manufacturing process node development.

ST reorganizes regional structure

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:26:00 EST

STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has announced changes in its global sales and marketing organization, consolidating ST's regions in Asia to two: Greater China & South Asia, Japan & Korea, with effect from Jan. 1, 2010.

Presented By: NEC

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:26:00 EST

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SpringSoft, Magma cross-check their 65-nm EDA tools

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:32:00 EST

SpringSoft and Magma Design Automation have completed cross-tool validation using TSMC's 65nm interoperable process design kit (iPDK).

Presented By:

NEC

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Altium adds peripheral support to FPGA Nanoboard

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:04:00 EST

Altium has released a prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards. The board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2.

ST-Ericsson plans more job cuts

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:44:00 EST

Following the reorganization announcement made in July this year, ST-Ericsson announced a plan to further improve financial performance and increase its competitiveness in the market, by reducing its work force.

HTC joins defensive patent pool

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:01:00 EST

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corp. has become the twentieth company to join startup RPX Corp. a defensive patent pool service started a year ago in a sign the hunger to lower costs and risks of patent infringement litigation is still keen among established electronics companies.

Update: Synopsys' revenue, profit fall

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:15:00 EST

EDA and IP vendor Synopsys narrowly missed consensus analyst sales expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter, as revenue fell on both a sequential and year-to-year basis.

Comment: Phase-change memory goes on conference circuit; what's missing?

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:19:00 EST

Up until now nonvolatile memory supplier Numonyx BV (Switzerland, Geneva) has been tight-lipped about the engineering detail behind its phase-change memory technology. Now we have six papers at two conferences, but is something missing?

Cray studies exascale computing in Europe

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:12:00 EST

Cray Inc. has announced three European partners for a new program aimed at delivering by the end of the decade a supercomputer capable of performing an exaflop, a quintillion calculations per second.

ISSCC preview: Sensors make all the difference

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:06:00 EST

Sensor technologies and sensor circuit developments are taking front and center seat at next February's International Solid State Circuits Conference. Much of the discussion will center around MEMS sensors.

Presented By:

NEC

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ISSCC preview: Non-volatile memory goes commercial

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:14:00 EST

Non-volatile memory technologies promise to break important ground at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, due to be held in San Francisco in February as the technologies move closer to market.

Presented By:

NEC

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Alchimer eliminates seed step from TSV process

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:35:00 EST

Alchimer SA (Massy, France), a provider of wet deposition processes for semiconductor interconnects and 3-D through-silicon vias (TSV), has said it has found a way to eliminate the seed-layer step from the standard isolation-barrier-seed process flow.

Philips borrows $300 million to spend on healthcare R&D

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:19:00 EST

Philips secured a EUR 200 million loan (about $300 million) from the European Investment Bank to fund research and development activities across a range of innovative healthcare projects, including image-guided intervention and home healthcare, in Europe.

ARM exec gives hints for IP business model optimization

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:24:00 EST

In a keynote at the IP-ESC 2009 Conference this week in Grenoble, France, Eric Schorn, vice president of marketing, processor division ARM Ltd, compiled a How-To list of basic steps to optimize IP business models and better deliver value to the customer.

Startup ready to license silicon anode for battery

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:53:00 EST

Nexeon Ltd. (Abingdon, England), a company formed in 2006 to commercialize battery research conducted at Imperial College in London, is getting ready to license its silicon-anode technology for use with lithium-ion batteries.