From an analog design perspective, the digital still camera (DSC) provides surprisingly rich turf. Far from what the product category name might imply, the DSC is loaded with mixed-signal design and components. Looking first at attributes tied to this month’s focus on line drivers, the Nikon 4800 of Figure 1 provides one view of [...]
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Tokyo — As the rest of the world grapples with its “first” transition to HDTV, demonstrations of third- and fourth-generation “super” or “ultra” high-definition (HD) displays, with resolutions eight to 16 times sharper than current offerings, were all the rage at recent electronics and display trade shows in Japan. Full-HD resolution (1,080 x 1,920 [...] EETimes Article: SHANGHAI, China — One of China’s major wireline telecom companies, China Netcom, plans to fully implement a domestically developed codec in its fledgling IPTV network. Use of the codec, known as AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard), is a big break for its developers, which have had a hard time selling it to [...] Chipmaker Texas Instruments unveils semiconductor technology that will lower the cost of producing multimedia phones, says Fortune’s Stephanie Mehta NEW YORK (Fortune) — Less than two years after announcing new semiconductor technology aimed at drastically reducing the cost of making very basic wireless phones, Texas Instruments says it now has developed a similar chip [...] SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 8 — A $90 million supercomputer made for nuclear weapons simulation cannot yet be rivaled by a single PC chip for a serious video gamer. But the gap is closing quickly. Indeed, a new breed of consumer-oriented graphics chips have roughly the brute computing processing power of the world’s fastest [...] |
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