http://www.triadsemi.com Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:06:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Market: Power (Handheld/Portable Electronics) Target Platform: VCA-2 Application: Power Management +Plus [caption id="attachment_202" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Figure 1 – Power management Application Space"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/08/12/portable-power-management/ Triad Semiconductor's Reid Wender writes about Configurable Power Management ASICs in this recent article in Chip Design Magazine. http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/06/02/chip-design-magazine-article-configurable-power-management-asics/ 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 intelligence to ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/04/28/smart-sensor/ 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), heart ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/04/11/bioelectric-amplifiers/ 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 ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/01/17/triad-semiconductor-establishes-subsidiary-in-laval-to-launch-its-expansion-into-canada/ Montréal, le 17 janvier 2008 - Afin de satisfaire la croissance rapide de la demande mondiale pour ses solutions de circuits intégrés spécifiques (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ou ASIC) à signaux mixtes, la compagnie américaine Triad Semiconductor a inauguré aujourd'hui sa première filiale, Triad MDG (Montréal Design Group), à Laval, ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2008/01/17/triad-semiconductor-inaugure-une-filiale-a-laval-pour-lancer-son-expansion-au-canada/ MELVILLE, N.Y. and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Dec. 10, 2007 - The North American Components business of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) and Triad Semiconductor, Inc., a leading mixed-signal ASIC provider, will make Triad's mixed-signal via-configurable array ASICs available through Arrow's North American sales and design centers. Arrow will provide technical sales ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2007/12/10/arrow-electronics-and-triad-semiconductor-team-to-offer-mixed-signal-via-configurable-array-asics/ Triad announces availability of its new LVDS Transmitter and Receiver drivers. These drivers can be used in such applications as; High Speed Backplane Driver, Complementary Clock Drivers, Level Translator, System Interconnects, ATM Applications, SDH Applications, High-Resolution Imaging Applications, Laser Printers, Digital Copiers, Stackable hubs for data communications, Digital Video, and ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2007/08/23/lvds-transmitter-and-receiver-drivers/ Via-configurable array (VCA) technology enables the rapid development and low cost design of feature-rich mixed-signal ASICs that integrate sophisticated analog IP blocks without the pain and risk of full-custom design. To IP or Not to IP Although all real engineers would like to create all of their designs from scratch, that just ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2007/01/25/soft-ip-for-the-analog-asic-impossible-yet-true/ The Digital Structured ASIC is dead. LSI has pulled the plug. Synplicity is winding down their entire structured ASIC line. Articles appear, almost daily, waxing nostalgic about the rise and fall of an industry. Yet, there is a new approach to using a structured (or platform, or array) approach to ... http://www.triadsemi.com/2007/01/25/are-digital-structured-asics-dead/