The designs of an IC, its package and its target system board have traditionally been separate development processes driven from common specifications. The system designer has typically relegated ...
Don't be so stuck in the circuits that you forget the importance of IC packages. Here are a couple cards from the Microchip 2005 product selector: While most design engineers are using surface mount ...
How much can one package take? As consumer electronics design features scale down to 45-nm and even 32-nm nodes, IC makers are pushed to the limits to shoehorn more functionality into these packages- ...