Integrated Circuits & Microprocessors

Sandia National Laboratory develops tougher rating system to evaluate supercomputers

Omega Micro Technologies develops a chemical plating process for making ceramic substrates for circuits

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology develop a method to radiation-harden microchips.

A simple four-component circuit allows a single I/O line from any microcontroller to sense the states of two capacitive touch sensors.

CMOS chip built for 60 GHz wireless data transmission

As IC electronics have become more densely packed, cross-talk among them has become a problem

Move over silicon. A new gallium-nitride (GaN) transistor offers the promise of low-power consumption and high efficiency in high-power, high-temperature electronics such as motor drives for hybrid vehicles, appliances, and defense equipment.

A combined photovoltaic cell and module production line able to produce 25 MW annually is in the works.

Solar cell makers can now go to Dow Corning Corp.’s Solar Solutions Application Center in Freeland, Mich., for help with materials used in making solar panels.

Hardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry.

Electronics makers trim their need for power to help extend battery life and meet new efficiency standards.

The VRS51L3072, an 8051-based microcontroller, has 2 kbyte of nonvolatile FRAM memory for quick and reliable nonvolatile data storage.