NXP 执行副总裁 Theo Claasen 在 NXP 的业务拓展会议上指出，IC公司将从450家缩减至最多50家，届时每个应用领域内会有2~3家主要专业性公司

效率和解决方案的尺寸，是与电池供电手持设备的电源管理解决方案密切相关的两大因素。

The following text, which focuses on feedback and control loops, is excerpted from Chapter 3 of the book Switch-Mode Power Supplies—SPICE Simulations and Practical Designs, by Christophe P. Basso

Dynamic_testing and diagnostics of A-D Converter.pdf

some discussion of multiple fedback loops

英特尔公司、韩国三星电子与台湾积体电路制造股份有限公司今天共同宣布，为了促进半导体产业的持续发展，并保持未来芯片制造及应用的合理成本结构，三家公司达成共识：2012年将是半导

科胜讯系统公司宣布已与恩智浦半导体签署最终协议，以1.45亿美元的交易价将宽带媒体处理产品线出售给恩智浦半导体。

The global market for semiconductors was $25.51 billion in March according to data from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), up 7.3 percent on March 2007 and up 35.8 percent from $18.78 billion in February 2008

IntroToDigitalControl

discussion about charge injection

There are a number of semiconductor options for the high-side current sensing function. The choices among integrated circuit (IC) devices can be classified into two, : current-sense amplifiers and difference amplifiers.

The deal will put NXP in a position “to compete head-to-head with Broadcom and STMicroelectronics,” Christos Lagomichos, executive vice president and general manager of NXP’s Home Business Unit, told EE Times.

Global sales of semiconductors during the first quarter of 2008 came in at $63.4 billion, up 3.8 percent on the same period last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

about the pop noise

some disussions of slew rate

The Sallen-Key filter can result in very sensitive circuits. This is the second part of a two-part article on how to analyze circuit sensitivity.

papers about DC/DC converter in Matlab/Simulink

Taking a big step in the IC business, Apple Computer Inc. has acquired PA Semi Inc., a supplier of embedded microprocessors, for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes.

IBM公司及其技术同盟厂商，包括特许半导体、飞思卡尔、英飞凌、三星、意法半导体和东芝日前共同宣布，他们在 IBM 位于美国纽约州 East Fishkill 的300mm晶圆厂已经成功展示了32nm High-K 金属栅极技术

Designing the compensation network in a DC/DC converter can be a mystery if one does not know where to place the poles and zeros of the error amplifier and how much gain the error amp needs.

P means proportional,
I means integral,
D means differential…

欧洲芯片商意法半导体公司(STMicroelectronics NV)日前宣布将旗下无线资产并入恩智浦半导体公司(NXP Semiconductors，由飞利浦创建的独立半导体公司)，从而组建一家由意法半导体控股的新的合资公司

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