July 27, 2010, Santa Clara, CA the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Santa Clara Chapter hosted a panel discussion on serial port memory technology (SPMT) at Marvel Semiconductor’s facility. The Steve Leibson moderated the panel comprised of the following members. Jim Venable, President, SPMT Consortium John Heinlein, VP Marketing, Physical IP Division, ARM Arun Akamat, VP…
Andy Melder, VP at Gigle Networks talks about the evolution of power-line communications as an alternative to WiFi and Ethernet for home networking on an IP-based protocol. In the past, power line networking was restricted to simple command and control functions like turning on lights and small appliances. The difficulties were in the pervasive noise…
As the decade begins, there is a pervasive presence of video being captured and broadcast. The most popular broadcast medium is the internet for this content, and the video is being captured on an increasing variety of devices. In an opportunity to review the current status and trends of the solid state imagers, I had…
Los Angeles— iHollywood Forum, an event partner, hosted a media event entitled “Future of 3-D for film, TV, video, games, mobile, and the Internet” on June 14, 2010. The third keynote speaker was Lenny Lipton, CEO, Oculus 3D. The history of planar imaging goes back many centuries. Now we have to look back at this…
Los Angeles— iHollywood Forum, an event partner, hosted a media event entitled “Future of 3-D for film, TV, video, games, mobile, and the Internet” on June 14, 2010.. The second keynote speaker was Buzz Hays, senior vp and GM of the Sony 3-D Technical Center. To assist filmmakers in creating high-quality 3-D movies, Sony established…
As touch technology has been a focus for displays and interactive video, there are other harsh condition applications that can utilize touch sensing rather than mechanical controls. For waterproof (rather than just water resistant) applications – hospitals, medical equip, and outdoor industrial controls, and wet application infotainment control. Most of the capactive touch technologies work…
The challenge of advanced process technologies used in semiconductors, and the criteria of design closure is not sufficient to insure that a product will work, they need to use manufacturing (MFG) closure. MFG closure is expanding on-die design closure to include advanced process characteristics, variability, and assembly including multi-die configurations. This is targeted at the…
Samsung shows off Tangjeong manufacturing complex by Tets Maniwa. In a market where 80 percent of the TVs are LCDs, Samsung has a 20 percent market share, the largest of all the vendors. To make all those TVs, Samsung’s Tanjeong, meaning a spring—a source of water—in Korean, manufacturing facility, one of their four sites,…
Atmel Corporation maXTouch solutions now support large touchscreens up to 15 inches diagonally and offer both touch functionality and stylus support. The larger screen solution is an enhancement of existing maXTouch capacitive touch systems which supported small screens up to 4.5 inches. This new upper limit was selected based on market factors rather than technical…
By Pallab Chatterjee May 18, 2010 – Santa Clara, CA. At today’s 6th annual Nanotechnology conference, the focus was on the directions for research and new applications for nanotechnology materials. Although the majority of the sessions were focused on NanoBio and NanoMedicine, there were several presentations on power that were related to the entertainment…