August 7, 2000[Editor's Notebook] Ode To The Paper Napkin- The Untold Story
As I sit here on a bumpy airplane ride, traveling home from Electronic Design's annual editorial meeting, it seems somehow fitting that I should find inspiration at the sight of a paper napkin. Yes, that's right, I said a "paper napkin!" It...
June 12, 2000[Forefront] Alliances Brighten Future For OLED Displays
A number of strategic partnerships in the display industry are working to bring organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays to the forefront. These devices already are attractive in portable applications because of their wide viewing angle,...
May 1, 2000[Forefront] Antifuse Technology Dips To 0.22 μm
Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., has devised a 0.22-µm antifuse field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. It claims to offer a 20% reduction in die size, along with substantially less power dissipation. Also, it has a 10% higher...
April 17, 2000[Forefront] Electronic Torque Sensor May Improve Power Steering Systems
A group of researchers at Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, is now developing a material that's lightweight and cost-effective enough to rival conventional hydraulic power-steering systems. With just a 0.25-in. thick ring of the material, an electronic...
April 17, 2000[Forefront] HDL-Based Industry Organizations Unite
In a move that comes as a surprise to the EDA community, Open Verilog International (OVI) and VHDL International (VI) have announced plans to unite. The resulting, and as yet unnamed, industry organization will be responsible for driving the...
March 20, 2000[Forefront] Stamp-Sized Ferroelectric LCD Can Power 50-in. TV Screens
For many years, the Holy Grail of the display community has been the enabling of both very large-screen and very small-screen high-resolution displays with optimal clarity, field of view, and performance. That's because achieving these qualities...
March 20, 2000[Forefront] Optical-Lithography Tools Drop Design Geometries To 0.05 μm
Design geometries continue to shrink. Of course, this should come as no surprise to anyone now that deep-submicron (DSM) design and nanotechnology have become part of every engineer's staple diet. But just how low can design geometries go? According...
February 7, 2000[Forefront] Superconductivity Research Looks At Higher Temps
Researchers from Stanford University, Menlo Park, Calif., and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., are working to uncover clues to high-temperature (Tc) superconductivity. This data may help resolve a...
February 7, 2000[Forefront] Give Your IP A Unique ID With Silicon Fingerprinting
One of the challenges created by today's proliferation of intellectual property (IP) is keeping track of it in the field. If I create a core and sell it to a third party, how do I verify that it is being used in accordance with the licensing...
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