January 6, 2011, – Livermore, CA- We talked to Camille Tang of Convienient Power which was one of the original members of the Qi Wireless Power Consortium. In a pre-CES update, she talked about the progress made in the group and the surpirsing developments in the adoption. Qi Wireless Charging pad The past couple of…
January 5, 2012 – San Jose, CA – Xilinx announced support for high performance video display processing for use in TVs and flat panel displays for both 3D and 4K2K applications. The 7series FPGA products – Zynq, Artix7, Kintex7 and Virtex7 are fast enough, have enough programmability , datapath space and high performance I/Os to…
January 5, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The automotive products group at Xilinx introduced a new Ethernet Audio/Video Bridge (EAVB) Development Kit co-developed Alliance Program member Digital Design Corp. (DDC) which gives automotive system developers the framework and tools to do large bandwidth data management. Automotive systems are incorporating more video data both in…
At the 2011 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference held in San Mateo, CA this month, speaker after speaker made it pretty apparent that 3D is for real. Though there are still competing flavors of 3D, and some advocate ‘2.5D’ as a safe stepping stone, the cost and reliability of 3D are now…
December 12, 2011 – Washington DC – The International Electron Device Meeting of the IEEE is the premier annual event on the directions in process technology advancement and the future of device scaling. The event has traditionally be the vehicle for promotion and validation of Moore’s law. As process technology is reaching several limits on…
November 8, 2011, Santa Clara, CA—EDAC and the IEEE CEDA presented the 2011 Phil Kaufman Award to David Liu for his contributions to the EDA industry. His work helped to transform an ad-hoc design process into an algorithm-driven methodology. He influenced developments in logical and behavioral synthesis and in physical design. Walden Rhines, chairman of…
December 1, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, – At the AppNation conference in San Francisco, Infinite Monkeys was showing their free to create app builder platform. The product is complete “wizard” based workflow that allows someone to create an HTML5 or Android App for smartphones & tablets free and with no programming knowledge. The site…
December 7, 2011- San Jose, CA – As a head start to CES, Samsung’s SSI division showed off some of their new products. These included offerings from the optical drive group, digital signage group and advanced displays. The digital signage group showed and update on the transparent retail display product. The screens and the associated…
November 19, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – The Korean Scientist & Engineers Association of Silicon Valley (www.ksea-siv.org) hosted the North West Regional Conference in Santa Clara this year. The event was attended by over 100 members, guests and speakers from the bay area, Southern CA, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland and other chapters in the NW…
November 4, 2011 – Berkeley, CA – The E3S center at UC Berkeley, continued its research overview on energy efficient electronis. The second day of the conference focused on new device physics and circuits based on phenomenon other than electron movement along with new ideas for logic design. The day opened with a presentation from…