X-FAB Offers Unique Substrate Coupling Analysis Solution to Address Unwanted Parasitic Effects
https://www.electronics-lab.com/x-fab-offers-unique-substrate-coupling-analysis-solution-address-unwanted-parasitic-effects/
Powerful new tool facilitates first-time-right analog & high voltage design implementation in even the most challenging of scenarios. Continuing to drive innovation in analog/mixed-signal IC fabrication, X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE (http://www.xfab.com/) has announced the introduction of SubstrateXtractor. Unwanted substrate couplings can impact modern IC developments, causing parasitic effects that are damaging to overall performance. Engineers […]
The top 10 linear voltage regulators according to SnapEDA
https://www.electronics-lab.com/top-10-linear-voltage-regulators-according-snapeda/
In electronics, linear voltage regulators are commonly used to stabilize voltages. Regardless of the input voltages or load conditions, they will provide fixed output voltages, thus protecting devices from fluctuating outputs, which can cause inefficient performance or even damage. When designing a power supply for an application that requires a small difference between its input […]
A miniature microfluidics heat sink For high-performance chip cooling
https://www.electronics-lab.com/miniature-microfluidics-heat-sink-high-performance-chip-cooling/
At the Embedded World Conference 2019, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents a silicon-based compact microchannel heat sink that enables high heat flux dissipation. The imec heat sink assembled to a high performance chip for cooling the latter one achieves a low total thermal resistance of 0,34K/W to […]
Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry
https://www.electronics-lab.com/inexpensive-chip-based-device-may-transform-spectrometry/
Tiny device could replace expensive lab-scale equipment for many applications. Spectrometers — devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine the chemical composition of everything from laboratory materials to distant stars — are large devices with six-figure price tags, and tend to be found in large university and industry labs or […]
IBM just unveiled the ‘world’s smallest computer’
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ibm-just-unveiled-worlds-smallest-computer/
by Paul Miller @ theverge.com The computer is 1mm x 1mm, smaller than a grain of fancy salt, and apparently costs less than ten cents to manufacture. To be clear, the picture above is a set of 64 motherboards, each of which hold two of this tiny computer. IBM claims the computer has the power […]
Struggling with the weight of your excess inventory?
https://www.electronics-lab.com/struggling-weight-excess-inventory/
Many companies in the electronics manufacturing industry face the issue of excess inventory at some point, and with new technology constantly emerging this will remain the case. Companies may think that selling excess is a difficult or time consuming process, but by outsourcing the problem to a professional excess inventory management company, it is actually very […]
PAC1934 – Microchip’s New Power-Monitoring IC Measures Power With 99% Accuracy
https://www.electronics-lab.com/pac1934-microchips-new-power-monitoring-ic-measures-software-power-99-accuracy/
Microchip recently developed a precision power-and-energy-monitoring chip – PAC1934. The PAC1934 is a four channel power/energy monitor with current sensor amplifier and bus voltage monitors that feed high-resolution ADC. It works in conjunction with a Microchip software driver that is fully compatible with the Energy Estimation Engine (E3) built into the Windows 10 operating system. The whole […]
Self-learning neuromorphic chip composes music
https://www.electronics-lab.com/self-learning-neuromorphic-chip-composes-music/
Peter Clarke @ eedesignnewseurope.com reporting: Research institute IMEC has created a neuromorphic chip based on metal-oxide ReRAM technology that has the ability to self-learn. That self-learning has been applied to music making. Self-learning neuromorphic chip composes music – [Link]
Reverse engineering the 76477 sound effect chip
https://www.electronics-lab.com/reverse-engineering-76477-sound-effect-chip/
Ken Shirriff has written an article on reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip: Remember the old video game Space Invaders? Some of its sound effects were provided by a chip called the 76477 Complex Sound Generation chip. While the sound effects1 produced by this 1978 chip seem primitive today, it was used […]
Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip
https://www.electronics-lab.com/inside-vintage-74181-alu-chip/
Ken Shirriff writes: The 74181 ALU (arithmetic/logic unit) chip powered many of the minicomputers of the 1970s: it provided fast 4-bit arithmetic and logic functions, and could be combined to handle larger words, making it a key part of many CPUs. Inside the vintage 74181 ALU chip – [Link]