Embedded/Real-time and Mobile Application Operating Systems study data from Venture Development Corporation’s (VDC) lead to the conclusion that the overall embedded software code base may be growing at a rate of approximately 9% per year. VDC expects projects using commercial and open source operating systems to represent the bulk of total embedded software code base growth going forward. Furthermore, VDC’s findings suggest that engineers working on projects using commercial, open source, and in-house operating systems, as well as those using no formal operating system (running on their target system), all expect, on average, to employ significantly greater amounts of software code on their next embedded design…
The SRAM cell utilizes a conventional six-transistor design and has an area of 0.1um2, breaking the previous SRAM scaling barriers. SRAM cell size is a key technology metric in the semiconductor industry, and this work demonstrates IBM and its partners’ continued leadership in cutting-edge process technology. Key enablers of the SRAM cell include band edge high-K metal gate stacks, transistors with less than 25 nm gate lengths, thin spacers, novel co-implants, advanced activation techniques, extremely thin silicide, and damascene copper contacts…
IBM Builds World’s Smallest SRAM Memory Cell
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its joint development partners — AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) — announced the first working static random access memory (SRAM) for the 22 nanometer (nm) technology node, the world’s first reported working cell built at its 300mm research facility in Albany, NY. SRAM chips are precursors to more complex devices such as microprocessors.
Mobile devices are the most consumer electronics products sold in the world, with more than one billion shipping per year. Nevertheless, the market is in a state of rapid change. Three or four years from now, no mobile devices vendor - no matter what their position in the market today - will be in the “comfort zone”. Developed and developing markets for mobile devices are being shaped in the form of various forces. Developed markets in particular are typically highly saturated, highly competitive and highly segmented, with strong product Innovation…
“No Comfort Zone” for Mobile Device Vendors in the Future
Mobile devices are the biggest-selling consumer electronics products in the world, with more than one billion shipping every year. However, the market is in a state of rapid flux. “Three or four years from now, no mobile device vendor – no matter what their market position today – will be in a ‘comfort zone’,” says ABI Research vice president and research director Stuart Carlaw, in a new webcast available on the firm’s website.