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IPC sets the industry on the path to sustainability

Caroline Hayes — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:02:47 +0000

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 ...

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Synopsys’ Sashi Obilisetty is honoured at DAC 2024

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:01:53 +0000

The executive director of R&D in Synopsys’ EDA group, Sashi Obilisetty, was presented with the Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award at this year’s DAC in San Francisco, ...

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A new look at the figures around Moore’s law

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:28:02 +0000

Joe Sawicki , executive vice president, IC EDA at Siemens, challenged the mutterings that Moore’s law has run its course, and said the semiconductor industry was blighted with pessimism. At ...

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MSP430 clones explore limits of MCU power

Staff — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:37:17 +0000

The Texas Instruments MSP430 is practically synonymous with low-power processors and, although the company may not care much for the idea of clones of the architecture appearing, that is being ...

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Renesas promotes work on power-saving micros

Staff — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:19:42 +0000

Yoichi Yano, executive vice president of Renesas Electronics made energy saving the theme of his keynote at this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, describing some of the techniques the ...

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TI promotes low power at ISSCC

Staff — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:14:59 +0000

The International Solid State Circuits Conference kicks off next week and Texas Instruments, which unveiled a low-energy digital signal processor last year based on near-threshold logic circuitry, is keen to ...

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Magnetic RAM: an unexpected choice for low-power cache memory

Staff — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:23:57 +0000

Magnetic memory (MRAM) was not at my list of candidates for future cache memories but in a paper for the latest issue of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, a group ...

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Is subthreshold all that?

Staff — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:00:01 +0000

When looking at new architectures for low-power operation, it is easy to get fixated on one part of the design and ignore the ramifications for the rest of the system. ...

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The glitch that stole the FPGA’s energy efficiency

Staff — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:56:26 +0000

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are notorious for high power consumption. They are hard to power down in the same way as custom logic – so they have considerable static power ...

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Parallel processing meets analogue amplifiers

Staff — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:05:53 +0000

In an opinion piece for Electronics Weekly, head of Nujira Tim Haynes writes that the launch of LTE has met with some power problems. As such, it has not been ...

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