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Avnet's Roy Vallee: Staying constant in a world of change

Thirty-one years ago, Roy Vallee joined a little company known as Hamilton/Avnet as a field sales representative. After subsequent promotions and deca...

Freescale, Harris ink TV transmitter alliance

Freescale Semiconductor and communications company Harris Corp said they are working to integrated Freescale’s laterally diffused MOS UHF technology...

Challenges and design decisions for measuring multicore performance

The type of multicore processor you choose and the type of parallelism you apply in your application code will greatly affect the performance you will...

SEMI: Q2 semi equipment bookings fall 30% y/y

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) reported late Tuesday that Q2 worldwide billings of semiconductor manufacturing equipment r...

NEC joins IBM's 32-nm development alliance

Making it the eighth semiconductor manufacturer in IBM's joint development alliance working to advance performance and power improvements for next gen...

AC/DC-power supply ups power density with innovative magnetics, digitally controlled modules

Incorporating a new dual-function-transformer design, digitally controlled modules, and an online product configurator, a new series of digitally cont...

DisplayPort versus HDMI: Do we really need two digital-display-interface standards?

DisplayPort silicon is beginning to appear in PCs, LCD monitors, and graphics cards. But it will probably be at least five years before prices fall an...

Intel revamps vPro: allows virtualized pc models, auto tune-ups

In an effort to open the door to virtualized PC models and products aimed at the special needs of small businesses, Santa Clara, Calif-based chip gian...

ARM develops IP for Common Platform alliance 32-nm, 28-nm nodes

ARM will develop and license a platform of IP for the IBM-Chartered-Samsung Common Platform alliance as the group moves its SoC work to the 32-nm and ...

Microcontroller inputs parallel data using one pin

Clever use of pulses of various time constants allows a microcontroller to input a slowly changing serial pulse stream using a single I/O pin. ...