We already know a few details about the A6 chip thanks to iFixit’s immaculate teardown, but there’s still a lot to learn about how much hard work Apple put into custom designing their A6 chip. iFixit ...

iFixit and Chipworks have partnered on a teardown of the A6 system-on-a-chip, Apple's custom design that powers the iPhone 5. While several of the high-level details such as 1 GB of RAM and a ...

Analog circuitry is essential for all real world systems. Sensors, for example, which are a primary driver for the growing IoT market, require analog for measurements (e.g., temperature, pressure, ...

The design teams typically invest years and numerous iterations to validate IP and produce a functioning chip. Once this validation is complete, they create derivatives of the silicon-proven IP, often ...

Over the last week, more and more details of Apple’s custom A6 processor design have come to light, including a custom armv7s-compatible core design and its triple-core GPU. Detailed analysis by ...

Electronic design automation (EDA) houses like Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys are working closely with TSMC to migrate their respective analog design flows to foundry’s advanced process nodes ...

The robot replaces the time-consuming manual process of site layout, using a variety of different inks to place precise lines, exact curves and faithful reproductions of complex shapes on all kinds of ...