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RSS chipsNow in Ikea's bargain corner: Cheap mobile PAYG
News As well as cheap-as-chips PAYG mobile goodness, Ikea Family members enjoy a multitude of Ikea-based benefits, including discounts on selected Ikea products and restaurant meals, free tea and coffee in the Ikea restaurant on week days and a free... [04 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News While the Home Office claims that "high tech checks" render the blank ePassports useless, privacy experts say they could be used to fool everyday ID checks, for limited travel abroad or be fitted with cloned chips. [29 Jul 2008]
pathChirp: Efficient Available Bandwidth Estimation for Network Paths
White Paper Packet chips offer several significant advantages over current probing schemes based on packet pairs or packet trains. This paper presents pathChirp, a new active probing tool for estimating the available bandwidth on a communication network path. [11 Jul 2008]
Route Table Partitioning and Load Balancing for Parallel Searching With TCAMs
White Paper In order to distribute the lookup requests among multiple TCAM chips, a smart partitioning approach called pre-order splitting divides the route table into multiple sub-tables for parallel processing. [10 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News A Dutch study recently found the electromagnetic interference generated by the track and trace RFID chips has the potential to disrupt medical devices. Hospitals across England are keeping track of patients and equipment using RFID tagging. [09 Jul 2008]
Contactless Chips and Border Operations: A Realistic Assessment
White Paper The international community has placed significant emphasis recently on the promise of Contactless Integrated Circuit Chips for the enhancement of border security in modernized Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) and other Machine Readable Travel... [03 Jul 2008]
Silent Commerce Chips Away at Star City Casino Wardrobe Worries
White Paper Star City, an Accenture client, found a groundbreaking answer to their laundry-tracking problem by embedding radio frequency identification tags in the waistband, shirttail or collar of each uniform. This innovative solution is an example of Silent... [03 Jul 2008]
Yield Improvement and Repair Trade-Off for Large Embedded Memories
White Paper The degree of manufacturing success is measured by yield, which is defined as the average ratio of the number of usable chips that pass manufacturing test to the total number of potentially usable chips. [03 Jul 2008]
Choosing a Real-time Processing Approach
White Paper With the advent of high performance reduced instruction set chips (RISC) such as the Intel i860, popular in the early 1990s, and today’s Power PC family, attention remains focused on using arrays of RISC chips for real-time DSP applications. [03 Jul 2008]
New Techniques for Testing Power Factor Correction Circuits
White Paper This paper describes how to test the feedback loops in power factor correction (PFC) chips for stability. This paper describes procedures for testing both loops and gives guidelines and examples for several chips. [03 Jul 2008]
RFID Tagging: Final Report
White Paper The tags are small silicon chips that contain a unique identifying code and may also contain some form of stored battery power and on-chip memory. While RFID chips can be classified on the basis of several characteristics such as frequency, multi... [03 Jul 2008]
Proximity Communication
White Paper The experiment transmits pseudo random patterns between chips built in 350nm CMOS technology. Chips touch face-to-face to communicate. The same pseudo random data pattern is loaded onto both chips so that the receiving chip can check the accuracy... [03 Jul 2008]
POWER2 Fixed-Point, Data Cache, and Storage Control Units
White Paper Three of the chips on the multichip module, the Fixed-Point Unit (FXU), Data Cache Unit (DCU), and Storage Control Unit (SCU), provide a tightly integrated subsystem that avoids bottlenecks in the cache, memory, and I/O interfaces. [03 Jul 2008]
Win Win Win
White Paper The traditional adversarial business models just won't cut it in the brave new world of smaller processes, larger chips, and more numerous cores. Time-to-market pressures, annual next-generation process technology introductions, the system-on-a... [03 Jul 2008]
SANblade QLA2202F Performance
White Paper The QLA2202FS product is based on a pair of ISP2200A chips. The trailing "S" in the name references S-Bus support found on Sun systems. The final "2" in the name references a port count of two: two channels are available from a single board slot... [03 Jul 2008]
