November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—the SFBA Nanotechnology Council symposium at the National Semiconductor conference center continued with Nick Kepler, vice president for corporate program management at Global Foundries discussed “Design and Technology Co-optimization: Collaborating to Overcome the Challenges of 28 nm and Beyond”. The key technology enablers are lithography, materials, and 3-D packaging. To…
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—SFBA Nanotechnology Council held a symposium on “Nanoelectronics: Innovation and Implementation” where Di Ma, vice president of applications and technology at TSMC talked about the “Technology Challenges in 28 nm CMOS and Beyond”. The general premise was that Moore’s law is going to continue, until advanced technology nodes no longer…
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—SFBA Nanotechnology Council held a symposium on “Nanoelectronics: Innovation and Implementation” at the National Semiconductor conference center. Chris Bencher, distinguished technical staff at Applied Materials talked about “Process and Integration-Based Scaling for 15 nm Nodes” in the opening session. First, he reviewed the progression of technologies for lithography. In the…
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA- Digital microphones are now available for both the professional and the consumer market for supporting long line application and software control of the microphone sound. The underlying specification is call AES42 and it a subset specificaiton the AES3 global microphone specifiation. A white paper that describes the capability…
November 4, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – A discussion panel was held at the 129th AES regarding the new standards for loudness balance for TV broadcast and commercials. The panel was led off by Pat Waddell of Harmonix who brought the audience up to speed with the what were the governing documents, and the…
At the 3D Entertainment Summit and the Nvidia Graphics Micoy was showing their 360 degree viewable 8K 3D display. The immersive display system is centered around a unique projector system with a custom render and lens setup. The projector operates with a multiple lens arrangement to address a variety of dome shaped screens that are…
In a recent interview with Paul Grayon of Alibre Design, we discussed the emergence of 3D printing and its use in industrial design. Their software product is currently available in two version a personal level and a professional product. Alibre – personal version The software in available on the Windows platform and in…
We recently had a chance to talk to Jason Hartlove of Nanosys about the directions they are going in and their announcement about expansion into Asia. They recently added direct local support in Korea and announced licensing programs with both LG and Samsung. The local support offices feature both Q&A type of support as well…
For over 30 years, John Meyer and his company have been designing and manufacturing high perfomance speaker systems for live performance venues of all sizes. These speakers and associated driver electronics, have been used in live theaters small to large, and stadiums as the baseline of measurement for quality sound. These systems have now been…
Sensio Technologies of Quebec recently demonstrated their frame compatible and 2D workflow & broadcast compatible 3D solution. This solution is based on a custom codec that is available in multiple forms – a standard product 0.13um IC, as IP for FPGAs and other custom solutions and equipment that has license arrangement with Sensio. Richard LaBerge…