High data-rate applications like Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, PCI Express, Fibre Channel and Serial ATA continue to drive system bandwidth to higher and higher levels, creating the need for high ...

Some time over a decade ago, the arrival of inexpensive PCB fabrication revolutionised the creation of custom electronics on a budget. It’s now normal for even the smallest projects we feature here to ...

The maximum current that can be safely and continuously applied is determined by the temperature rise of the track. The use of a track with varying width gives the best combination of sensitivity and ...

For years, large ASICs like the ones used in network processing, supercomputing and high-end personal computing have had very interesting similarities. The figure below is a fairly typical floorplan ...

Global Unichip, TSMC’s design arm, is manufacturing a consumer electronic applications processor ASIC with a DDR2/3 interface delivering 2.0GHz Mbps from its 40nm low power (LP) process. Key steps ...

We are in the middle of a quiet revolution. As the costs of Asics keep goingup and programmable logic devices gain robust capabilities to handle increasedcomplexity, programmable logic design ...

Poor PCB track layout isn�t the only culprit causing radiated EMI. Here are some simple design techniques that can reduce EMI from high-speed ASICs. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a latent ...

Driven by a need to reduce power and increase bandwidth density in data center network switches and other devices, the data networking industry is moving toward adoption of co-packaged optics (CPO).

Paris, March 7, 2011 – Rev.enge , when it was introduced last year was the first of its kind, as it was targeting complex system designs and could capture and trace all information coming from ...

Things are getting closer for KnCMiner, the Swedish mining firm that is preparing to ship 28nm boxes next month. The firm has taken delivery of the first boards to go into its ASIC miners, and is ...