The IPC, the industry association for printed circuits and electronics assembly chose the anniversary of President Biden issuing the Presidential Determination 2023-06, to lament the lack of investment in the US PCB industry. The Presidential order, signed in March 2023, invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA), which was designed to stimulate US investment in PCB manufacture and ‘related technologies’. According ...
The IPC, the trade association for electronics assembly companies, has released the findings of recent research into the industry’s approach to sustainability. Each year, electronic waste accounts for $57 billion in losses including the disposal of iron, copper, and gold. The survey finds that sustainability is inspiring changes to every aspect of electronics manufacturing, said Dr John W Mitchell, the IPC’s ...
Performance and integration challenges could lead to engineers re-examining the role of the ‘humble FPGA’, says Alok Sanghavi of Achronix Semiconductor. Physical limitations are starting to restrict how much further process geometry shrinkage can take us in terms of boosting processor throughput. As this happens, designers are debating how they can re-think designs so that they do not need to pack ...
Distributor Conrad has upped its focus on the R&D market after teaming with Eurocircuits to launch a new pan-European PCB service.
Ever-increasing chip sizes and complexity are increasing the need for full-chip verification in the early stages of software validation, according to Jean-Marie Brunet, Mentor’s marketing director. “Networking chips are now the biggest chips out there – they can be bigger than 20x20mm and have more than 400 million gates,” says Brunet. “Simulation is insufficient because of the limit to cycles ...
Today, Altera launches a single chip HD video analytics IC. The device enables a computer to make intelligent analysis of video content via a set of algorithms that analyse movement and determine if action is required based upon user defined rules.
A tour d’horizon of the challenges facing the IC industry was delivered by Ravi Subramanian, CEO of Berkley Design Automation, to this week’s Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz.
Toshiba has developed a new flip-flop circuit using 40nm CMOS process that will reduce power consumption in mobile equipment.
Analog Is The Future is the title of today's Silicon South-West forum in Southampton. Bruno Johnson of the analogue design house Cascoda, disagreed
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