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Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI
Toshiba has announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS technology. The technology opens the door to a future generation of LSI fabricated with bulk CMOS technology, the mainstream technology in today's LSI, by achieving the world's first practical fabrication process applicable to 20nm generation CMOS devices.
ACAL Technology waits for news of Rosetta Spacecraft
ACAL Technology is entering the final five years of a fifteen-year wait confident that a custom heater mat, designed in collaboration with Honeywell, will fulfill its vital role in allowing the Rosetta spacecraft to sample the surface of the comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Frost & Sullivan Award Recognises ZMDI’s Commitment to Developing Innovative, ‘Green’ Products
The Frost & Sullivan ‘2009 European Sensors & Sensor Interfaces Green Excellence Product Innovation Award,’ is presented to Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMDI). The award recognises the company’s energy-efficient sensor interfaces, sensor signal conditioners, temperature sensors and other application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that have helped customers in the automotive, medical, industrial and consumer industries to meet t...
2010 International CT Symposium to take place August 31 - September 2
Experts, current and future users of high-resolution computed tomography (CT) are invited to attend the 2010 International CT Symposium, sponsored by phoenix|x-ray, a part of GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies, in Dresden from August 31 – September 2. The event will be a forum for conversation and discussion regarding latest developments in CT technology and analysis methods, as well as the future of CT technology around the world, addressin...
KarmelSonix Asthma Management Devices Utilize Analog Devices’ Technology for Disease Management
Analog Devices has announced today that KarmelSonix, pioneers in medical device development for asthma management, have chosen Analog Devices’ Blackfin digital signal processors and advanced signal chain components to power its products. KarmelSonix’s non-invasive acoustic technology devices, the WholterTM, an overnight pulmonary monitor, and the WheezometerTM, a personal asthmatic assessment device, address the critical need of over 300 mill...
itemic boosts product portfolio in the field of production control for semiconductors, photovoltaics, MEMS, automotive and medical equipment by taking over ASSA Systems
itemic AG, the provider of software solutions for process automation, has taken over the Potsdam ASSA Systems GmbH, a provider of software systems for production control. The software solutions of ASSA Systems allow itemic to supplement their product portfolio, especially in the areas of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), equipment interfaces and process control techniques for production and logistics. By combining itemic's technologies for S...
Loongson achieves first-pass silicon with Synopsys CustomSim circuit simulation solution
Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Loongson Technology Co., Ltd. achieved first-pass silicon success on its 65nm, multicore, high performance Loongson-3 CPU design using Synopsys’ CustomSim circuit simulator. The CustomSim solution was successfully deployed for timing and dynamic power simulation of advanced full-custom blocks, PLL, HyperTransport, register file, and content-addressable memory. The CustomSim solutions’s SPICE-level precisio...
Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET1 cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and magnetic moment inherent in electrons. Toshiba has fabricated a spintronics cell and verified its stable performance for the first time, and will present full details of the cell and its technologies at the International Electronics Devices Meeting2 in Balti...
National Instruments Announces the Embedded Virtualisation Webcast Series
National Instruments has announced the Embedded Virtualisation Webcast Series, a live, joint webcast series from NI and Intel that focuses on virtualisation technology from introductory information and business benefits, to key underlying technologies and implementation details. By viewing this free webcast series, engineers, scientists and embedded designers can gain important information needed to understand virtualisation, select a software so...
Agilent Technologies' HDMI CTS 1.4 Test Solution Selected by Simplay Labs
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that Simplay Labs, LLC, the company operating four of the eight global HDMI Authorized Test Centers, has selected Agilent Technologies as its High-Definition Multimedia Interface test solution provider. Agilent's test solution meets, or exceeds, the requirements of the HDMI Compliance Test Specification Version 1.4 and is listed as recommended test equipment. The Agilent test solution addresses four secto...