Archive for June, 2011

Impressions of DAC 2011

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

I attended the 48th Design Automation Conference in San Diego this past week and I came away from the conference with several main thoughts:

EDA tool vendors continue to enhance their products by listening to their customers and acting on those inputs.
There [...]

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A Tiny but Mighty MEMS Infrared Temperature Sensor

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Did you ever use your a laptop on your lap and get an unpleasantly warm sensation, even a burning, sensation, on the top of your legs?  Manufacturers of portable electronic devices would like to have a way of monitoring case temperature to insure that you don’t experience that sensation on your legs; or an unpleasantly [...]

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More Than Trees Growing in Luther Forest

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Last week Semico visited the GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Fab 8 construction site and was impressed for several reasons. Not only is the infrastructure significant but the people and surrounding community have welcomed GLOBALFOUDNRIES, embraced the project as well as the invasion of businesses and people that go along with the project. This made our [...]

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