Over the recent years post-silicon SoC validation has become a major bottleneck in IC design. Due restricted design cycle time and test bench limitations almost all the designs are taped-out with ...

Mechanical switches are pretty easy to understand—the contacts touch, the current flows, and Bob is, presumably, your uncle. But what about soft switches? Well, they’re not that difficult to ...

So, you’ve probably heard about flip chip IC technology, maybe in passing or maybe you’re knee-deep in a project that needs it. It’s this pretty neat way of putting computer chips onto circuit boards.

Toggle, slide, push-pull, push-push, tactile, rotary, etc. The list of available switch styles goes on and on (and off?). Naturally, as mechanical complexity goes up, so (generally) does price. Hence ...