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In the Intensely Competitive integrated circuit Marketplace, HP and Logical Consolidate and Optimize National Semiconductor's IT Infrastructure for More Agility

Now headquartered in Santa Clara, California, National Semiconductor has a rich portfolio of industry leading technology solutions. The recent growth in business volumes and increase in marketplace complexities were placing an ever-increasing load on key components within the SAP infrastructure. To further compound the situation, the company wanted to leverage...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Integrated Circuit, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, SAP AG, National Semiconductor Corp., Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware

Case studies

Semiconductor Wafer Foundry Partners With EMC

In its quest for quality excellence, 1st Silicon (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (1Si) has formed many strategic supply-chain partnerships, including one with Integrated Circuit Design Service (ICDS). Due to its business growth, ICDS was compelled to look for higher performance storage solutions. ICDS also wanted to ensure that business-critical data was...

Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Integrated Circuit, Partnership, Wafer, EMC Corp., Semiconductors, Storage, Business Structures, Hardware, Finance

Case studies

integrated circuit Maker Protects Thousands of PCs With Easy Security Solution

Analog Devices makes more than 10,000 different integrated circuits that are used in electronic products. Security is critical to protecting its computing resources, including PCs, servers, and the network. Analog Devices had antivirus software to protect its PCs, but wanted to increase its level of protection and its ability to...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, PC, Analog Devices Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virus, Cyberthreats, Security, Semiconductors, Viruses And Worms, Hardware

Case studies

Supply Chain Management & Beyond

As a worldwide market leader in Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), Philips is committed to an open standards approach to supply chain management. Optimized for all aspects of supply chain management, Philips ICs are already being used in hundreds of applications that use millions of ICs. RFID technologies have significant potential...

Tags: Supply Chain, Integrated Circuit, SCM, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware

Case studies

ACT: A Cluster Co-Processor for 3G Baseband Wireless

Architectures for wireless systems have traditionally been designed to meet real-time requirements, t on a limited die area, and operate within a low power budget. These conditions are usually met by implementing compute-intensive operations in an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). ASIC design is both expensive and time consuming. ASICs...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, 3G, ASICs, Semiconductors, Wireless, Hardware

White papers

IC Source Pinpoints Best Deal With RamSan Solid State Disk From Texas Memory Systems

IC Source, Inc. has been serving the time-critical and complex needs of electronic components brokers since 1996 with its advanced inventory database application. The company wanted to improve competitiveness of trading forum by eliminating backlog of updates to the inventory database. IC Source initially set up the RamSan-400 in a...

Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Database, Integrated Circuit, Semiconductors, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

Meeting Test Challenges for ADSL ICs

ADSL is a modem technology that exploits the unused capacity in ordinary two-wire telephone lines. It is asymmetric in that download speeds from the central office (CO) to the remote terminal (RT) can be up to four times faster than upload speeds. This asymmetric performance is ideal for market-driving consumer...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, Credence Systems, ADSL, Modems, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Networking

White papers

IC-CIDeR for VMware - Effective Security for Virtualization

Due to the increasing use of virtual IT infrastructures, the demands on monitoring and control of these environments along with suitable backup technologies are growing. The Infrastructure Center for VMware Framework (IC) is the heart of the IC product family for VMware ESX. IC is a client-server product that operates...

Tags: Security, Integrated Circuit, Virtualization, VMware Inc., mySoftIT, Semiconductors, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

The Advantages of FRAM-Based Smart ICs for Next Generation Government Electronic IDs

Electronic versions of passports and other government-issued identification documents use an Integrated Circuit (IC) or chip to establish a digital link between the holder and personal biometric information, such as a digitized photo, fingerprint or iris image. Designed to enhance border, physical and IT security, electronic chips ensure that the...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, E-passport, Passport, Government, Semiconductors, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-27

Adaptive Sensing and Image Processing With a General-Purpose Pixel-Parallel Sensor/Processor Array integrated circuit

In this paper, a pixel-parallel image sensor/processor architecture with a fine-grain massively parallel SIMD analogue processor array is overviewed and the latest VLSI implementation, SCAMP-3 vision chip, comprising 128 × 128 array, fabricated in a 0.35µm CMOS technology, is presented. Examples of real-time image-processing executed on the chip are shown....

Tags: Integrated Circuit, Vision, IEEE, Image Processing, Chip, Semiconductors, Strategy, Network Technology, Hardware, Management, Networking

White papers 2006-09-01

Package-on-Package for Logic and Memory Integration

New and innovative packaging technologies are enabling the integration of logic and memory in handheld products to reduce the overall footprint for ICs (Integrated Circuits) on the main board. One of these technologies is Package-on-Package (PoP), where the bottom package is for the logic and the top package is for...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, Logic, Integration, Semiconductors, Handhelds, Hardware

White papers 2006-10-20

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT - essential reporting or more interference?

blog rootStop calling the techos ! - they're on it !We all know what its like, your production platform starts performing like a dog just three weeks after deployment and no one yet knows what the root cause is. Your monitoring tools have highlighted some symptoms to two specific support teams. Those...

Tags: Team management, Semiconductors, Call centers, incident management, Service Delivery Manager, benjamin.reid@..., integrated circuit, tech team, team, help desk

Discussion threads 2006-06-27

How 802.11b/g WLAN and Bluetooth Can Play: Without Standards-Based Solutions, ICs Must Referee Spectrum Rivalry

Bluetooth and WLAN technologies were developed to serve two quite different applications: Bluetooth offers a quick way for systems such as headsets and printers to interface with a PC or handheld device; WLANs offer wireless alternatives to local-area networks. They use the same spectrum to provide their different, highly valued...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, WLAN, Handheld Device, Standards, Wireless LANs, Bluetooth, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Handhelds, Networking, Hardware

White papers 2005-09-01

An Active integrated circuit Wireless Interference Cancellation Solution

The nature of growth in the wireless communications industry dictates that networking radios will be increasingly collocated in both frequency and space. This potentially places the multiple functionalities of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) at the users disposal while maintaining the benefits of spectral...

Tags: Georgia Institute Of Technology, Integrated Circuit, WLAN, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, LANs, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2005-07-06

ACD Processing: IC's Automatic Communication Distribution

Interaction Center's ACD (Automatic Communication Distribution) intelligently routes interactions based on agent availability, skill levels, costs, priority and any other attribute one choose. ACD quickly finds the best match between agent and interaction by calculating agents' scores and interaction scores. This white paper provides an overview of how ACD works...

Tags: Interactive Intelligence, Integrated Circuit, Agent, ACD, Real Estate, Semiconductors, Business Operations, Hardware

White papers 2004-11-30

A Single-Chip Dual-Band Tri-Mode CMOS Transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN

Recent years have seen the rapid deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) in offices, homes, and hot spots, and numerous descriptions of single-mode WLAN CMOS transceivers have been published. However, the proliferation of multiple IEEE 802.11 WLAN standards has created the need for integrated low-cost multimode multiband transceivers that...

Tags: Integrated Circuit, Transceiver, WLAN, IEEE, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2004-12-01

The Advantages of Battery-Assisted UHF RFID Labels

Battery-assisted, backscatter label technology is a recent innovation that addresses the limitations of passive RFID. Also known as "semi-passive" or "semi-active" labels, battery-assisted labels contain a power source, an antenna, and an integrated circuit (IC). The main technological difference between passive and semi-passive (battery-assisted) labels has to do with the...

Tags: Label, Integrated Circuit, Battery, Engineering, Semiconductors, Hardware

White papers 2004-11-01

IC Board Fried

Hi All,First time here and was hoping can get some advice from those experts here. Today I fried my HD circuit board. If I'm not wrong it's the capacitor that was burned.My questions are:1) Can I just replace the circuit board with another circuit board from a same hard disk...

Tags: circuit board, hard disk, board, tanwuguan@..., hardware, integrated circuit

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

Identifying A Sound Card

My friend gave me his computer to fix because it has no sound. I need help identifying a sound card. It is an onboard soundcard. I don't know the name of the computer or what company made it. I need to know what type of sound...

Tags: audio card, BIOS, BIOS ID, integrated circuit, motherboard, skullkrusher250@...

Q&A 2005-03-25

High Performance Memory Interface Solution

The Rambus XDR DRAM achieves an order of magnitude increase in DRAM bandwidth while using the fewest ICs. The XDR Interface uses a small number of very high-speed signals to carry all address, data, and control information. XDR architecture provides a total system solution to many of the complex issues...

Tags: Memory, Rambus Inc., DRAM, high-performance, integrated circuit

White papers 2003-06-19