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European chip sales growth leads U.S., lags Asia
The three-month average of chip sales for Europe in October was $3.62 billion, up 2.5 percent from the previous month and up 2.2 percent compared with October 2006, according to numbers sent out by the Semiconductor Industry Association. Details... more...
Texas Instruments sues Chipcon founder
Chip company Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas, Texas), which paid $200 million to acquire mixed-signal and wireless chip company Chipcon Group ASA (Oslo, Norway) in January 2006, is taking Chipcon founder Geir Forre to court, according to sources close to TI. Details... more...
Capacitive sensing techniques and considerations - - The basics
Here are the basics of the art of measuring and converting capacitance into digital values to be processed, manipulated and interpreted. Commonly used sensing methods--Charge Transfer, Successive Approximation, Sigma-Delta, and Mutual Capacitance Measurement are described. Details... more...