November 5th, 2009

Harald Schone attended the Non Volatile Memory Technology Symposium (NVMTS) in Portland Oregon. Harald also was the session chairman for the Ion Conducting and Flash Memory sessions. Amy Wilson of Section 5140 was part of the conference organizing staff handling the registration and event coordination activities. The conference had over 50 papers and posters on [...]
Tags: Parts Technology, Sig Events | No Comments »
November 3rd, 2009

Gary Burke and Doug Sheldon were recognized for their work at the 2009 NASA Space Act Board Awards. The awards are presented by Dr. Elachi for significant contributions to NASA and JPL missions. Gary and Doug’s award was for “Precise Delay Measurement Circuit for FPGAs”. The circuit provides high resolution for time delays in FPGAs [...]
Tags: Parts Technology, Sig Events, xilinx-virtex-4 | 1 Comment »
October 1st, 2009
Researchers at the LIRMM in France have developed an FPGA cell based on MRAM technologies. Space FPGAs use FPGAs based on either SRAM cells or antifuse cells. The use of MRAM technology mixed into an FPGA architecture has the potential to reduce power savings in standby mode and reduce configuration time.
The idea to [...]
Tags: mram-memory, non-volatile-memory, Parts Technology | No Comments »
September 14th, 2009
Here is the Q1 2009 ranking for foundries. Note that TSMC is almost 4X larger in revenue than the next company, UMC at #2.
Tags: cmos-technology-issues, Parts Technology | 1 Comment »