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- CMOS
- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. ...
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- Canon rumor: CCD is dead, long live CMOS
- The sensor king is dead! Long live the king! A rumor has been posted on, yes, CanonRumors that Canon will be ditching the CCD imaging sensor it uses in pro-level digital camcorders for the CMOS chips it currently uses in its digital SLR still cameras. ...
- Tags: CMOS, Sensor, Video, Camera, Canon Inc., CCD, Sensor King, Corporate Communications, Memory, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Canon EOS Rebel T1i dSLR: 1080p HD video for under $900
- The big buzz about the Canon EOS Rebel T1i announced yesterday is that it's the cheapest dSLR that shoots video (and 1080p HD video at that), but there's plenty more to recommend it. by Janice Chen
- Tags: Memory Card, Pixel, CMOS, Video, 1080p, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Memory, Flash Memory, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- New microchip uses 30 times less power
- Scientists at Rice University have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the technology, named PCMOS, revealed results at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference ISSCC, the world's premier forum for engineers working...
- Tags: Rice University, Phone, Microchip, CMOS, Cell Phone, Logic, PCMOS, ASICs, Semiconductors, Memory, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- A Low-Power Wideband CMOS LNA for WiMAX
- In this brief, the design of a low-power inductorless wideband Low-Noise Amplifier LNA for worldwide interoperability for microwave access covering the frequency range from 0.1 to 3.8 GHz using 0.13- m CMOS is described. The core consumes 1.9 mW from a 1.2-V supply. The chip performance achieves ª11 below 10...
- Tags: CMOS, IEEE, Chip Performance, Memory, Performance Management, WiMAX, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-10-19
- Moore's Law to last 40 more years?
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
- Tags: Performance, CMOS, Intel Corp., Moore, Nanotechnology, Memory, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Intel, carbon nanotubes, Moore's Law
- Videos 2008-08-21
- Process Variation Aware Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization
- The complexity in timing optimization of high-performance microprocessors has been increasing with the number of channel-connected transistors in various paths of dynamic CMOS circuits and the rising magnitude of process variations in nanometer CMOS process. In this paper, a process variation aware transistor sizing algorithm for dynamic CMOS circuits while...
- Tags: Aware, Optimization, Transistor, CMOS, Academy Publisher, Optimization Algorithm, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-02-01
- A 10000 Fps CMOS Sensor With Massively Parallel Image Processing
- A high speed analog VLSI image acquisition and pre-processing system has been designed and fabricated in a 0.35 µm standard CMOS process. The chip features a massively parallel architecture enabling the computation of programmable low-level image processing in each pixel. Extraction of spatial gradients and convolutions such as Sobel or...
- Tags: Gradient, Pixel, CMOS, Sensor, IEEE, Image Processing, Retina
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Saving energy with probabilistic chips
- As CMOS technology reaches the nanoscale level, researchers are looking at 'noise' and other perturbations. And some of them at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taken advantage of this 'noise' to achieve incredible energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their probabilistic CMOS PCMOS...
- Tags: CMOS, PCMOS
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- In 2004 CMOS image sensors passed CCD sensors
- In 2004 Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOS image sensor shipments surpassed Charge-Coupled Devices CCDs, reports In-Stat. This shift was the result of the exploding camera phone market, with shipments more than doubling from 2003 to 2004. While CMOS has surpassed CCDs, CCDs are not going away. They maintain substantial market...
- Tags: CMOS, CCD
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
- Webcab VGA CMOS image censor prices to decline 20% in 2006
- The price of PC camera-use VGA CMOS image sensors is expected to decline by 20% in 2006, DigiTimes reports.
- Tags: VGA CMOS, VGA
- Blog posts 2005-12-02
- Bypass the BIOS password by hacking your CMOS settings
- Recover from a CMOS memory-affecting virus or work around a boot-time password by making BIOS forget all it once knew. A BIOS password can be very effective at controlling access to your personal computer. If the computer won't boot up until a password is entered it is...
- Tags: Password, Hacking, PC, CMOS, BIOS Password, O'Reilly Media Inc., BIOS, Hardware, Components
- Book chapters 2005-10-03
- Maybe now, Intel's Centrino will offer a technical advantage
- Maybe now, Intel's Centrino will offer a technical advantageDid someone say "steamroller"?Thought you did! ;)It's the noise, stupidThe challenge is to do the RF processing in standard CMOS. CMOS is noisy and not terribly good at RF, so up until now the RF section was handled in another chip....
- Tags: Memory, Semiconductors, CMOS, Intel Centrino, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-17
- Cell phones could keep atomic time
- Cell phones could keep atomic timedoesn't the server update our cel phone times?why would it need a built in clock?other usesA cubic centimeter is a lot of space inside a cell phone. I wouldn't expect to see it in one of those soon.But as a basic technology/physics/engineering story, this...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, GPS, phone, cell phone, CMOS
- Discussion threads 2004-08-30
- Radiant PC Extended CMOS Driver 3.3.3.0 (Windows)
- Radiant PC Extended CMOS Driver
- Tags: PC, CMOS, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2003-10-23
- In-Stat/MDR: CMOS image sensor market to grow
- The image sensor market has seencontinued growth over the past year, marking a bright spot in thebeleaguered semiconductor sector, reports In-Stat/MDR. Overall, the high-tech market research firmexpects the image sensor market to grow at a 28.1% annual rate in unitterms through 2007. However, due to ASP erosion, annual revenue growthwill...
- Tags: In-Stat/MDR, CMOS
- Blog posts 2003-10-05
- Samsung CMOS Plus(Composite) n/a (Windows)
- Samsung CMOS PlusComposite
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., CMOS, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2002-03-06
- Samsung CMOS Plus 1.0.2.3011 (Windows)
- Samsung CMOS Plus
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., CMOS, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2002-03-06
- EOS 10D 5.1.0.6 (Windows)
- The EOS 10D brings an unprecedented level of features, controls and value to the advanced amateur and studio photographer. Digic imaging engine Direct print from camera Magnesium alloy body Large 6.30 mega pixel cmos sensor 7 point AF 3 FPS continious shoot These advanced features in an easy-to-use interface, the...
- Tags: Imaging, CMOS, Microsoft Windows, Canon Inc., Document Management, Memory, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2002-01-24
- Generic 1.3 CMOS DSC 1.0.0.5 (Windows)
- Generic 1.3 CMOS DSC
- Tags: CMOS, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2002-01-08
- CMOS 100K-R Rev. 1.90 1.1.0 (Windows)
- This package supports the following driver models:CMOS 100K-R Rev. 1.90
- Tags: CMOS, BTC, Microsoft Windows, Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2001-06-28
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