Electronic Design

CMOS Will Replace Exotic Processes In Cellular ICs

Cellular handsets comprise the largest consumer market in the world. It's even larger than markets for some of the most common electronic devices, such as wristwatches and televisions. Service ...
EDN

Technology turns low-cost CMOS into powerful ICs for consumer apps

Toshiba recently announced a new fabrication process that uses low-cost CMOS to achieve high-speed (60-GHz), highly integrated wireless communications over short distances. The technology hopes to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CMOS ICs for 77 GHz Automotive Radar

A new technical paper titled “CMOS IC Solutions for the 77 GHz Radar Sensor in Automotive Applications” was published by researchers at STMicroelectronics and University of Catania. “This paper ...
Electronic Design

Silicon-On-Sapphire CMOS RF ICs Change Wireless System Design

Companies have been fabricating silicon on an insulating substrate for years. This approach lets IC designers make high-frequency, high-performance CMOS that can be used in fast processors or in RF ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Based on 4 Different ICs Manufactured in Progressively Smaller CMOS Process Technologies

“In this work, we aim to improve upon this state of the art by presenting a public and open hardware Trojan detection case study based on four different digital ICs using a Red Team vs. Blue Team ...