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SerDes IP ready for integration at 6-nm process nodes
AnalogX has made available the 6 nm and 7 nm SerDes intellectual property (IP) for chiplets and chip interconnects serving designs in artificial intelligence (AI) and data center environments....
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Freemium analog layout tool facilitates quick, easy, and accurate physical...
Animate Preview, the analog layout design tool that generates physical information after a schematic is loaded, is now available for complimentary download and installation. It provides engineers with...
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Analog design asset consolidation continues as Renesas snaps Dialog...
Renesas Electronics snapping up Dialog Semiconductor is another testament to analog building blocks’ critical importance in creating a semiconductor giant that aims to cater to 5G, wearable,...
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Semiconductor M&A wave: A look at ADI’s four small acquisitions in four years
While trade media has mostly been focused on Analog Devices Inc.’s mega-deals, first Linear Technology and then Maxim Integrated, what’s lesser known is how the analog and mixed-signal chipmaker is...
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Why Silicon Labs wants to sell its analog chip business
The semiconductor industry’s consolidation wave has analog written all over it and the Bloomberg News report about Silicon Labs selling its analog chip business is a testament to this analog design...
View ArticleProfile of an ANC-enabled audio CODEC for TWS designs
A new off-the-shelf audio CODEC is available for integration into SoCs targeted at high-fidelity, ultra-low-power designs like true wireless stereo (TWS) systems. Dolphin Design’s audio CODEC,...
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Analog IP reuse solution claims 22-nm node migration
Analog IP reuse, one of the biggest challenges facing system-on-chip (SoC) designs, is getting some help from successful migrations to smaller process nodes. Thalia Design Automation, for instance, has...
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Three analog design breakthroughs in LiDAR systems
The light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology is getting traction beyond level 2+ and above autonomous vehicles, and analog design breakthroughs are at the heart of this sensing and vision...
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Silicon photonics on MEMS technology startup eyes 5G networks
AEPONYX, the startup building the integrated photonics with MEMS devices, has closed a new $10 million funding round. The Montreal, Canada-based firm is picking telecom and 5G networks as the first...
View Article10 analog design icons that vanished in the 21st century
Analog semiconductor acquisitions are all the rage. After the golden age of analog design innovations spanning across the last three decades of the 20th century, an era of consolidation began with the...
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How does a MEMS microphone work?
Like their electret condenser microphone (ECM) counterpart, MEMS microphones extract audio pressure changes as electrical signals. However, MEMS microphones boast a reliable monolithic structure and...
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2021 analog rankings: Skyworks ascends, TI consolidates 300-mm advantage
In this year’s analog ranking gleaned from IC Insights’ McClean Report, while Texas Instruments has maintained its firm grip on the top slot, what’s really newsworthy is Skyworks Solutions’ ascent to...
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Three things to watch when selecting a position sensor
Autonomous driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), vehicle electrification, and Industry 4.0 designs are pushing sensing devices for a reinvention to more accurately and efficiently...
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Cadence integrates AWR’s RF tools into Virtuoso, Allegro
After buying National Instruments (NI) subsidiary AWR Corp. for $160 million more than a year ago, Cadence Design Systems has announced the release of Version 16 (V16) of the AWR Design Environment to...
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Speed sensor with 50% larger air gap eyes EV powertrain
A new magnetoresistance (GMR) speed sensor—aimed at hybrid and pure electric vehicle (EV) transmissions—claims to offer an air gap that’s 50% larger than existing options. That, in turn, optimizes...
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Is analog IC fab renaissance in the works?
The Taiwan-based analog IC vendors are hitting new highs in the third quarter of 2021, and the growing availability of fab capacity seems to complement this boost in analog chip sales. This news is a...
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Ultracapacitor-based storage offering lead-acid alternative
Ultracapacitors are moving beyond the status of a component in a quest for new energy storage solutions and UCAP Power’s funding led by investment management company Grantchester C Change is a...
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Configurable analog IP supplier joins the RISC-V fray
The news about Agile Analog joining the RISC-V International as a strategic member reinforces the analog IP presence in a growing ecosystem built around a free and open processor instruction set...
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The politics of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers for power chips
The fact that silicon carbide (SiC) wafers are often in the news bodes well for this wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor material’s credentials as a disruptive semiconductor technology for smaller,...
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A two-decade journey from ON Semiconductor to onsemi
ON Semiconductor, Motorola’s former Semiconductor Components Group, which spun off as a separate company in 1999 to focused on standard discrete, logic and analog semiconductors, has come a long way...
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