The market for portable and mobile data access devices that are wirelessly connected to the cloud anytime and anywhere is exploding. The trend to access any network from anywhere is driving increased ...

Developments in the field of semiconductors are leading to integrated circuits with three-dimensional features and even moving parts. Such devices, called microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), can ...

MEMS (Micro ElectroMechanical Systems) combine electrical andmechanical components with feature sizes of the order of severalmicrons. MEMS technology has evolved to its present state thanksmainly to ...

Lewis Counts doesn’t buy the idea that analog is going away. That in itself is not too surprising, given that the vice president and division fellow at Analog Devices has made a career of designing ...

Application requirements for compact, easy-to-use voltage regulators with better efficiency than LDOs is spurring the development of a new class of buck-converter ICs. These devices are monolithic ...

Researchers in China have made an audio frequency amplifier using a micromachined mechanical switch as the only active component. Class E amplifiers are related to boost (step-up) switching power ...