Electro-ramblings

Check out the latest feature article added to the site - it covers an FPGA-based design for producing an arbitrary-frequency generator.

Check out the breaking news on Electronics Weekly.com.

ARM has just lifted the embargo around its Cortex A9 multiprocessor architecture. The company is launching a new processor architecture specifically for multiprocessors that can put several processors in the space of a single high performance core. It's aimed at consumer and low power applications, such as next generation mobile phones.

We have a new addition to the family of Electronics Weekly blogs, please see our new UK Technology Startups blog ("News and resource information on funding for UK electronics technology startups")

A HitBox screen, giving real time stats on site traffic, is never far away when you are a Web Editor. Screen after screen of different views of time-stamped data from the Visual Science software. The numbers it provides are many and various, but the biggest battle is seeing the wood for the trees.

In the wake of the Atmel's disposal of its North Tyneside fab, we review the plant's chequered history.

December is coming round, ever quicker, and with it the Elektra Awards 2007

Another milestone towards the big event has been passed, with the announcement of the shortlists for all the 16 Award categories.

I won't highlight any individual categories, except one - the Readers' Choice Product Innovation of the Year award. I encourage you to get involved and make a choice from the shortlist of five innovative products.

It's almost 500 and counting for David Manners, Senior Components Editor for Electronics Weekly, and his posts for the Mannerisms blog.

We'll be making a big fuss of the landmark when David hits it in the next month or so, but if you haven't already, check out his ruminations on the chip and tech industries. Challenging, funny, informative, but never dull - you shouldn't miss out on the irreverent but authoritative postings.

Here's my own personal Top Ten Mannerisms...

Just noticed this one on the Intel blog, PR Chip Shots - "Sneak Peek -- Quad-Core Laptops"

It seems that Intel has been demoing a laptop PC featuring a quad-core processor - four processing engines per chip - at its IDF in Taiwan. Freshly delivered from the Intel design labs...

It's time for that periodic question: what is the state of the Browser Wars? How does Firefox compare to Internet Explorer when it comes to readers of ElectronicsWeekly.com? How is the battle faring on our particular piece of electronics turf?

Just FYI, stats for the last month are:

Take a look at the latest in-depth article added to the site - FPGA-prototyping and ASIC-conversion considerations.

Written by Bob Kirk, of AMI Semiconductor, it covers the best approach for designing with an FPGA...

We've just posted an interesting interview with Intel's David "Dadi" Perlmutter: Intel's 'Dadi' Perlmutter outlines the future of chip design

Perlmutter is the general manager of Intel's Mobility Group, and the de facto keeper of the Intel Architecture, and he has been talking about the company's on-chip graphics engine, the future of Intel's chip design and the ultimate number of cores that will be on a processor. In particular, however, he covers WiMAX and its significance for Intel.

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Samsung Electronics has a "Sashimi Theory" of Success for dealing with the ultra-competitive consumer electronics market.

CEO Yun Jong Yong believes that getting hot products to market before they become "dried fish" lets Samsung fetch high prices and better maintain its margins. Credit to BusinessWeek for the quote.

Transformers are very versatile for electronics applications and can be used in many ways. So believes Robin Evans, the Senior Design and Development Engineer at Wound Magnetics. He provides the introduction to the latest addition to our Trends & Technologies section: an Electronics Weekly guide to transformers.