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Engineering, Inspiration, and Advice—Intel VP Deepali Trehan’s Journey

Engineering, Inspiration, and Advice—Intel VP Deepali Trehan’s Journey

Deepali Trehan’s story is a human story, an underdog story, that happens to involve engineering. In this Season 6 kickoff episode of Moore’s Lobby, we visit with the VP and GM of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group about FPGAs, AI, chiplets, and more.


Commemorating Grace Hopper, the Woman Who Inspired NVIDIA’s CPU

Commemorating Grace Hopper, the Woman Who Inspired NVIDIA’s CPU

Grace Hopper’s advancements helped bring about the modern age of computing, a feat highlighted by NVIDIA’s processor named after her.


News Mar 06, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Receiving and Sampling Signals in Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

Receiving and Sampling Signals in Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

The receiver in a digital PAM system must sample and measure the amplitude of a signal that is affected by the frequency response of the transmission channel.


We Want to Connect Job Seeking Engineers with New Opportunities

We Want to Connect Job Seeking Engineers with New Opportunities

As layoffs cause disruption in our industry, All About Circuits wants to help connect out-of-work engineers with interesting new job prospects.


News Feb 28, 2023 by Jeff Child
Metasurface Research Could Usurp LCDs as Flat Screen Technology

Metasurface Research Could Usurp LCDs as Flat Screen Technology

New research hopes to pave a path towards using metasurfaces as a display technology.


News Feb 27, 2023 by Jake Hertz
PMIC Space Heats up With Design Wins, Acquisitions, and More

PMIC Space Heats up With Design Wins, Acquisitions, and More

Offering compact packaging, BLE functions, and more, today’s power management integrated circuits (PMICs) are meeting the technology needs of a variety of system designs.


News Feb 25, 2023 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
AI Takes a Strong Supporting Role in Modern Chip Design

AI Takes a Strong Supporting Role in Modern Chip Design

With AI evolving, chipmakers are taking advantage of deep learning methods to design chips faster and more efficiently than humans.


News Feb 24, 2023 by Darshil Patel
Ahead of MWC 2023, AMD Unveils RF SoC Duo for 4G/5G Radio Unit Designs

Ahead of MWC 2023, AMD Unveils RF SoC Duo for 4G/5G Radio Unit Designs

Targeting emerging 4G/5G radio unit markets, AMD has released two new members of its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC digital front-end (DFE) family.


News Feb 23, 2023 by Jeff Child
Arctic Semiconductor’s Hot Goal: The “Most Energy Efficient 5G RF ICs”

Arctic Semiconductor’s Hot Goal: The “Most Energy Efficient 5G RF ICs”

Shipping analog circuits with built-in smarts, Arctic Semiconductor’s first 5G RF chipset offers the best of both worlds in its mixed-signal RF IC.


News Feb 22, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Amid an Uncertain US Fab Market, TI Announces 300mm Wafer Fab in Utah

Amid an Uncertain US Fab Market, TI Announces 300mm Wafer Fab in Utah

Texas Instruments has announced a second 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fab in Lehi, Utah, to meet expected growth in IC demand.


News Feb 21, 2023 by Dale Wilson
In a Series of Agreements, GlobalFoundries Buoys Chip Supply From Home

In a Series of Agreements, GlobalFoundries Buoys Chip Supply From Home

Tracking the goals of the CHIPS+ Act, GlobalFoundries is strengthening the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem with several partnerships and acquisitions.


News Feb 21, 2023 by Biljana Ognenova
At ISSCC, IMEC Unveils Charge-pump PLL Design for Short Range Radars

At ISSCC, IMEC Unveils Charge-pump PLL Design for Short Range Radars

At this week’s 70th annual ISSCC event, research firm IMEC is presenting a phase-locked loop (PLL) IC design aimed at automotive and industry radar systems.


News Feb 20, 2023 by Jeff Child
MediaTek Ventures Further to High-end Chip Market With Dimensity 7200

MediaTek Ventures Further to High-end Chip Market With Dimensity 7200

MediaTek is upping the competition in the high-end smartphone market with the release of a new mobile processor.


News Feb 17, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Intel Lifts the Curtain on ‘Sapphire Rapids’ Workstation Processors

Intel Lifts the Curtain on ‘Sapphire Rapids’ Workstation Processors

For years, Intel has been steadily upping the core count for its desktop processors. Now, the company is following suit with its high-end workstation processors.


News Feb 16, 2023 by Hannah DeTavis
Infineon Unveils Tiny MEMS Microphone Touting High SNR, 520 μA Power

Infineon Unveils Tiny MEMS Microphone Touting High SNR, 520 μA Power

Putting its proprietary MEMS technology and clever ASIC design to work, Infineon marries high audio quality and low lower in a tiny microphone device.


News Feb 13, 2023 by Jeff Child
Power ICs Debut as High-side and Low-side Smart Switch Solutions

Power ICs Debut as High-side and Low-side Smart Switch Solutions

A slew of high-side and low-side smart switch chips have emerged, offering interesting alternatives for a variety of automotive and industrial use cases.


News Feb 10, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

Fabless FPGA/eFPGA Players Ramp up Their Innovations—a Roundup

With products built on some of the most advanced semiconductor fab processes—like TSMC’s 7 nm node—fabless FPGA/eFPGA providers are rolling out new updated open-source tools, new devices, and new IP.


News Feb 08, 2023 by Jeff Child
Qualcomm Brings Big SoC Upgrade to Samsung Galaxy S23 Series

Qualcomm Brings Big SoC Upgrade to Samsung Galaxy S23 Series

Samsung's new flagship smartphone is leaving behind in-house Exynos processors in favor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile processor.


News Feb 07, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Remembering Karl Alex Müller, the Swiss Superconductor Pioneer

Remembering Karl Alex Müller, the Swiss Superconductor Pioneer

Swiss physicist Karl Alexander(Alex) Müller leaves his legacy as the discoverer of high-temperature superconductors, a feat that earned him a Nobel Prize in physics.


News Feb 06, 2023 by Biljana Ognenova
Introduction to Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory

Introduction to Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory

Learn about double data rate (DDR) memory key concepts and applications surrounding this digital communication technique, where two data words are transferred during one clock cycle.