64-layer flash IC enables 1-Tbyte chips
https://www.electronics-lab.com/64-layer-flash-ic-enables-1-tbyte-chips/
Susan Nordyk @ edn.com writes: Toshiba has added a 512-Gbit (64-Gbyte), 64-layer flash memory device that employs 3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) technology to its BiCS Flash product line. This technology will allow the development of 1-terabyte memory chips for use in enterprise and consumer solid-state drives. 64-layer flash IC enables 1-Tbyte chips – [Link]
Bluetooth chip is only 4x4mm
https://www.electronics-lab.com/bluetooth-chip-4x4mm/
by Julien Happich @ edn-europe.com: Part of the Swatch group, EM Microelectronic announced what the company believes to be the world’s smallest Bluetooth chip. Offered in a 4x4mm QFN-28 package, in a WLCSP-21 or as a bare-die, the EM9304 is optimized for Bluetooth v4.2 low energy enabled products. Bluetooth chip is only 4x4mm – [Link]
Ultra-thin, high thermal conductivity substrate integrates ESD protection
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ultra-thin-high-thermal-conductivity-substrate-integrates-esd-protection/
Clemens Valens @ elektormagazine.com discuss about a new IC substrate. He writes: A new, ultra-thin ceramic substrate with an ESD strength of up to 25 kV – more than three times higher than the standard 8 kV of state-of-the-art Zener diodes – also features a high thermal conductivity of 22 W/mK. This is three times […]
ICStripBoard – PCB rapid prototyping tool
https://www.electronics-lab.com/icstripboard-pcb-rapid-prototyping-tool/
ICStripBoard is a innovative cheap tool to enable rapid prototyping of surface mount integrated circuits (IC’s) and allow their usage in prototype electronics projects. Inline surface mount IC’s come in a Variety of packages which are different sizes and these Printed Circuit Boards (PCB’s) have been designed to accommodate the majority of IC’s. Available […]
LTC4380 Overvoltage Protection
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ltc4380-overvoltage-protection/
Thomas Scherer @ elektormagazine.com writes: When it comes to protecting sensitive circuitry from potentially damaging over-voltage spikes and supply surges we usually resort to networks of coils, capacitors, resistors and suppression diodes to iron out the transients. The LTC4380 low quiescent current surge stopper IC from Linear Technology goes about it in a different way; […]
Inside the 74181 ALU chip: die photos and reverse engineering
https://www.electronics-lab.com/inside-74181-alu-chip-die-photos-reverse-engineering/
A detailed die photos and reverse engineering of the 74181 ALU chip by Ken Shirriff: What’s inside a TTL chip? To find out, I opened up a 74181 ALU chip, took high-resolution die photos, and reverse-engineered the chip.1 Inside I found several types of gates, implemented with interesting circuitry and unusual transistors. The 74181 was a […]
Software Defined Radio IC Decap
https://www.electronics-lab.com/software-defined-radio-ic-decap/
Software Defined Radio teardown: R820/RTL2832U Decap Recently there has been much interest in two integrated circuit which were originally designed to receive FM radio and DVB-T TV (as used in Europe). Some enterprising people quickly realised that since they were based on software-defined techniques they could be quickly re purposed for all sorts of clever […]
MAX11311 – The Powerful Configurable Mixed Signal I/O
https://www.electronics-lab.com/max11311-mixed-signal-io/
The MAX11311 is industry’s first configurable high-voltage mixed-signal I/O that allows user-defined ADC, DAC, or GPIO functionality. Programming MAX11311 is very easy. A nice GUI tool helps to generate the right register values. If you want to make a universal signal processing board with a good number of I/O, it often gets very difficult to […]
Keeping up with Moore’s Law
https://www.electronics-lab.com/keeping-moores-law/
by Clemens Valens @ elektormagazine.com: There was a time that every extra storage byte crammed into a chip was greeted with cheers and applause but today only few people will get the champagne out when an extra gigabyte or so is announced. We have become so used to the ever growing capacity of memory chips […]
From Sand to Circuits – How Intel makes integrated circuits [PDF]
https://www.electronics-lab.com/sand-circuits-intel-makes-integrated-circuits-pdf/
Here is a nice PDF document from Intel explaining how integrated circuits are made. From Sand to Circuits – How Intel makes integrated circuits [PDF] – [Link]