Archive for 2008

Portable Power Management

Market: Power (Handheld/Portable Electronics) Target Platform: VCA-2 Application: Power Management +Plus Portable Power Management Market Handheld electronics such as PDAs, GPS receivers, games, and medical devices integrate a wide variety of logic, memory, and analog functions into a small battery powered unit. Efficiently providing power to all of the mixed signal components in such devices [Read more...]

Chip Design Magazine Article: Configurable Power Management ASICs

Triad Semiconductor’s Reid Wender writes about Configurable Power Management ASICs in this recent article in Chip Design Magazine.

Smart Sensor

Market: Industrial Target Platform: VCA-4 Application: Smart Sensors add value to transducer data enabling and supporting distributed processing/decision making. By providing standardized engineering unit information, self-identification and time-stamping, smart sensors simplify the integration of transducers in a networked environment. Smart Sensor Market Smart Sensor is an umbrella term used to describe the addition of local [Read more...]

Bioelectric Amplifiers

Market: Medical Target Platform: VCA-4 Application: Bioelectric Amplifiers used in EEG, ECG, and EMG applications to amplify and digitize multi-channel electrodes to monitor brain, heart, and muscle activity. Bioelectric amplifiers are used in EEG, ECG, and EMG applications like those shown Figure 1. These systems are used to measure electrical signals from the brain (EEG), [Read more...]

Triad Semiconductor Establishes Canadian Subsidiary

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Jan. 17, 2008 – Addressing rapidly increasing global interest in its mixed-signal ASIC solutions, fabless ASIC company Triad Semiconductor, Inc. today opened its first subsidiary – Triad MDG, Inc. in Montreal. Triad MDG is staffed by senior engineers under the direction of General Manager Richard Prescott. It expands Triad’s design operations and [Read more...]