Digital semiconductors

Top 2012 Products Blend Value and Performance

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:34:00 +0000

This year’s top offerings developed during 2012 epitomize the creativity and ingenuity of the design engineers in the RF/microwave industry in meeting the most demanding requirements of their customers.

The top products of 2012 embody the creativity and ingenuity of the RF/microwave industry’s design-engineering community.

Interview: Andrea Betti-Berutto, CTO, GigOptix

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Microwaves & RF interviews Andrea Betti-Berutto, Chief Technology Officer, GigOptix.

IMS 2012, Day 3: A Sea of Semiconductor Vendors

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Think plumbing when you think of microwaves. At least that is the way it used to be. Lots of waveguides and metal structures with cavities. And tubes. Today much of that plumbing is still around for some applications. Now it is less plumbing and more ...

Processor Boasts 3 Billion Transistors on 9 Copper Layers

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:14:00 +0000

Altera Debuts Optical FPGA Technology

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:00:00 +0000

AS DATA RATE DEMANDS continue their rapid increase, engineers have been forced to look beyond copper and traditional optical solutions in order to meet the performance, cost, and power demands of bandwidth-intensive applications. With an eye ...

VME Synthesizer Spans 1 To 20 GHz

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000

This VME-based frequency synthesizer fits enormous performance into a compact module, including microsecond tuning speed and low phase noise from 1 to 20 GHz.

Process MW Signals With High-Speed Logic

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000

High-speed logic devices such as XOR gates and Type-D flip-flops can be used for a surprisingly broad range of circuit functions at microwave- and millimeter-wave frequencies.

Digital Capacitors Are Frequency Agile

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000

These 5-b capacitors provide simple digital interfaces with fast tuning speed, enabling them to select from 32 possible capacitance values that can be applied to circuits at frequencies to 3 GHz.

Perusing Package Options For ICs

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Improvements in semiconductor processing have led to higher levels of integration, allowing multiple analog and digital functions to be packed within a single compact housing.

DDS RFIC Performs Direct Digital Modulation

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000

With the increasing availability of ultra-highspeed digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) can generate waveforms exceeding 1 GHz. Until now, however, no higheroutput DDSs have been able to provide the desired ...