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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
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
Rambus Spins 6.4 GT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver for Speedier Servers

Rambus Spins 6.4 GT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver for Speedier Servers

The latest chip from Rambus raises the speed limit for DDR5, giving memory-hungry applications, such as data center servers, more room to run.


News Feb 06, 2023 by Aaron Carman
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.


Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Siemens Rolls Out IC Design Tool for Data-driven Verification

Seeking to leverage today’s data-rich engineering world, Siemens has released Questa Verification IQ, a software platform enabling data-driven IC verification.


News Feb 03, 2023 by Jeff Child
IEEE RWW Keynotes: Future of RF Looks Rocky and That’s a Good Thing

IEEE RWW Keynotes: Future of RF Looks Rocky and That’s a Good Thing

At IEEE Radio and Wireless Week (RWW), keynote speakers highlighted the trends in RF and wireless technology, and how design engineers must adapt to meet the new challenges head on.


News Feb 02, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Researchers Tap Origami as Basis for Reconfigurable Antenna Design

Researchers Tap Origami as Basis for Reconfigurable Antenna Design

Aimed at improving sensing and imaging systems, Princeton University researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna based on origami.


News Feb 01, 2023 by Darshil Patel
IEEE Radio and Wireless Week Panel: Getting to D-Band is a Group Effort

IEEE Radio and Wireless Week Panel: Getting to D-Band is a Group Effort

At IEEE Radio and Wireless Week 2023, industry leaders in chip fabrication and measurement engaged in a panel discussion to give engineers their opinions on the future of D-band technology.


News Jan 30, 2023 by Aaron Carman
Investigating Lossless Transmission Line Phase Constant and Infinite Bandwidth

Investigating Lossless Transmission Line Phase Constant and Infinite Bandwidth

Learn how to derive the wave equations for a lossless transmission line and look at its infinite bandwidth and phase constant.


Vertical Transistor Prototype Shows Promise for Biomedical Wearables

Vertical Transistor Prototype Shows Promise for Biomedical Wearables

With the ability to operate in both blood and water, the organic electrochemical transistor is proven useful for onsite signal processing.


News Jan 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Getting the Most Out of USB-C/PD System Designs

Getting the Most Out of USB-C/PD System Designs

USB-C/PD brings significant improvements to the USB connectivity world. In this article, learn how this technology simplifies system designs and the solutions available to implement USB-C/PD.


Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

Bluespec Teams Up with Synopsys for RISC-V Core Verification Effort

With their collaboration, the firms hope to enable faster and improved functional verification testing for Bluespec’s RISC-V cores.


News Jan 24, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

Exclusive—IBM Shares Details of Its 400+ Qubit Quantum Processor

All About Circuits spoke with IBM physicist and chief quantum hardware architect Oliver Dial to get exclusive details on IBM's 400+ qubit quantum processor: Osprey.


News Jan 23, 2023 by Ingrid Fadelli
A Primer on Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

A Primer on Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation

An encoding technique used for digital communication, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) converts a discrete-time signal into a variable-amplitude continuous-time signal that is suitable for high-speed wired communication systems.


Texas Instruments Announces First Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning Chipset

Texas Instruments Announces First Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning Chipset

Texas Instruments has developed two ultrasonic lens cleaning ICs to enable self-cleaning cameras and sensors.


News Jan 19, 2023 by Jake Hertz
From Parallel to Serial and Back Again: Understanding SerDes

From Parallel to Serial and Back Again: Understanding SerDes

Serialization/deserialization circuitry, known collectively as SerDes, provides important benefits for digital communication systems, especially when high data rates are required.


Research Efforts Signal Next Steps for Quantum Processor Evolution

Research Efforts Signal Next Steps for Quantum Processor Evolution

A trio of research papers offers new ideas that may solve some of the biggest hurdles to quantum processing technology.


News Jan 14, 2023 by Kristijan Nelkovski
RF Design Basics—Introduction to Transmission Lines

RF Design Basics—Introduction to Transmission Lines

Learn about voltage waves and how they relate to an important basic concept of radio frequency (RF) circuit design: transmission lines.


AMD Claims First x86 Processor with Dedicated AI Hardware

AMD Claims First x86 Processor with Dedicated AI Hardware

Aiming to enable efficient AI computing in the mobile space, AMD at CES rolled out its Ryzen AI engine, along with processors that embed the new AI engine.


News Jan 05, 2023 by Jeff Child