We often think that if a piece of software had the level of documentation you usually see for hardware, you wouldn’t think much of it. Sure, there are exceptions. Some hardware is beautifully ...

Abstract: A new technique to control the kink effect in the high-voltage lateral double-diffused MOSFET (LDMOS) is presented in this paper. This technique produces a local minimum in the band diagram ...

Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineering old chips and restoring classic equipment such as the Xerox Alto. Shirriff wrote the Arduino ...

Abstract: Gate oxide tunneling current (I/sub gate/) is emerging as a key roadblock for device scaling in nanometer-scale CMOS circuits. A practical means to reduce I/sub gate/ is to leverage dual ...

Curve tracers have been a staple in Elektor since 1979. This practical project from 2009 measures and records characteristic curves of NPN/PNP bipolar transistors, N-/P-channel JFETs, and MOSFETs.

Chapter 2.2 of the latest User Manual is using the old v1.0 Pin-Out Diagram. This threw me off and caused me hours of troubleshooting. The diagrams within the /Hardware/ folder are correct, but are a ...

IRONWOOD ELECTRONICS Clamshell spring pin socket serves power transistor. Device is constructed with stamped spring pin technology rated for 23GHz bandwidth with operating temperature range of -55C to ...

AMD's upcoming MI250X GPU was detailed at Hot Chips 34, where we get the GPU block diagram that gives us all the good stuff in terms of specifications and details. The new MI250X features not 1 but 2 ...