When the encrypted communications app Signal launched nearly seven years ago, it brought the promise of the strongest available encryption to a dead-simple interface for calling and texting. Now, ...

Not only are there low-power challenges with just about every design today, there are also very interesting issues concerning integration of mixed-signal onto chips. As chips are get bigger and more ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Efforts to design computing systems that operate more like the brain have pushed engineers to rethink how information is processed, transmitted, and stored. Biological neurons are ...

To integrate or de-integrate? That is the question that Tamara Schmitz addresses for mixed signal solutions. Mixed-signal solutions are an inevitable trend. We want our electrical devices to interact ...

What does the future of analog mixed-signal design and verification look like? Can we expect to see any methodology changes? There is no such thing as a purely digital design at advanced nodes today.

Many small and large design teams use third-party IP (intellectual property) to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design by importing functional blocks, such as data converters, PLLs, Ethernet PHY ...