The Computer History Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit, pictured above, with a multimedia exhibit called “The Silicon Engine” to explain why many claim the IC as one ...

You’re probably familiar with the little black boxes nestled neatly inside your favorite devices. With their diminutive size and unassuming characteristics, it can be hard to believe these vessels are ...

Forming circuits involves the use of cylindrical pieces of semiconductor material. These cylinders are sliced into thin, circular pieces known as bare wafers. The bare wafers are then oxidized before ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) issues in integrated circuit (IC) chip designs have become more critical at advanced semiconductor process nodes, due to shrinking transistor dimensions and oxide layer ...

- A key GX technology that can be applied to various social infrastructures - TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Using silicon photonics technology for semiconductor optical circuits, OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has ...

Every component that generates and transports serial data streams contributes jitter, but you can minimize jitter in components if you can measure it. Using circuit simulation, researchers at the ...