It used to be that a chip engineer would design an integrated circuit by hand drawing a few dozen pages of schematics using standard templates, the resulting patterns X-ACTO knifed out of plastic film.  But with transistor density doubling every 18 months, this manual process couldn’t scale and was eventually replaced with a technology called […]

Almost every electronic device you use on a daily basis is infested with analog chips that monitor, amplify, and transform real world phenomena (weight, light, temperature, amplitude, power), into digital signals that electrical systems can understand.  These chips are the silent and unappreciated heroes that enable safety and infotainment features in cars, wireless infrastructure equipment, […]