Power hungry systems cannot be free of power supply noise. In general, system designers try to use low noise linear power supplies whenever possible. However, excessive power dissipation usually ...

A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the ...

A few years ago, I was advising a mid-sized electronics manufacturer struggling to deliver on customer commitments. Its end-to-end lead time was 32 days, but what mattered wasn’t just the number.