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Fujitsu Laboratories Develops Power-Saving CMOS Technology for 32nm-Generation and BeyondFujitsu Laboratories Limited announced today the development of power-saving CMOS technology for logic LSI chips for 32 nanometer- (32nm-) generation and beyond. The new technology enables employment of a specific silicon crystal surface, which previously had not been applied in silicon substrates due to the crystal surface's conventionally low performance in the past, by improving its performance. As a result, as a world's first, the technology makes it possible to use current 45nm-generation fabrication facilities to reduce LSI power voltage without lowering operation speed, thereby containing production costs and cutting LSI power consumption during operation by approximately 20 percent (20%). It is anticipated that the technology can be used in a wide range of applications, such as system LSIs for various mobile devices that will need to be increasingly multi-functional, and for microprocessors of which many are running with multiple processing cores. [Read more...] |
ELECTRONICA, Munich, November 11, 2008 – Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select: ISIL), a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate the capabilities of several products in its growing line of high speed, extremely low power data converters during Electronica 2008, November 11-14, in Hall A4, Booth 207 at the New Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany.
Intersil’s innovative FemtoCharge® CMOS process, protected by over 32 patents, produces ADCs that use less power, achieve higher data speeds, take up less silicon area and are more immune to substrate noise. Because these devices scale with process geometries, they are also easier to integrate with digital systems.
Intersil’s high-speed ADC portfolio features more than 50 production devices, including pin-compatible families of 8-bit singles up to 350 MSPS, 10-bit singles and duals up to greater than 500 MSPS and 12-bit singles and duals up to greater than 500 MSPS. These devices use anywhere from one-half to one-fifth the power of comparative data-rate devices and have won numerous industry awards such as EETimes “Ultimate Products,” EDN’s “Hot 100 Products” and Electronic Design’s “Best Electronic Design.”
Electronica 2008 marks the first opportunity to see these devices as part of Intersil’s high-speed ADC portfolio. The demonstration will include evaluation platform software that shows how to configure the converters for any application, with adjustable skew, gain and offset; multiple power-down modes; and configurable outputs through an easy-to-use SPI port.
More detailed information about Intersil’s ADC products can be found by visiting the company’s converters webpage at http://www.intersil.com/converters/.
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