Electronic Design

Combat Semiconductor Noise with These Isolation Methods

What is high-voltage CMOS isolation? A look at ohmic contact substrates. Techniques for isolating RD-SOI devices. When a SiC DC solid-state switch is operating, a large temperature difference will ...
Electronic Design

Silicon-On-Sapphire CMOS RF ICs Change Wireless System Design

Companies have been fabricating silicon on an insulating substrate for years. This approach lets IC designers make high-frequency, high-performance CMOS that can be used in fast processors or in RF ...
EDN

Additional structures in analog layout beyond schematic

A schematic diagram is not a detailed blueprint of an analog circuit; instead, it’s more like architectural sketch of the circuit. Look at any schematic for a CMOS analog IC circuit and you will see ...
EDN

Analog layout: Why wells, taps, and guard rings are crucial

The previous blog looked at some of the structures in an analog circuit that are implied by the schematic, but not specified in detail. Key examples of this are well, taps and guard rings. These ...
Business Wire

Aroma Bit to Develop Smartphone Embeddable Ultra-compact Silicon CMOS Based Smell Sensor That Has Dog Nose Equivalent Resolution in 1mm Squared Die Size

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit launched a new subsidiary to develop the next generation smell sensor based on silicon CMOS sensor substrate that are ultra-compact, high resolution and low cost. The ...