Freescale (Austin, Texas) also said it would reduce its global workforce by about 2,400 jobs as part of a restructuring program that the company expects will save more than $400 million per year
DisplaySearch defines cash cost as including the yielded bill of materials (BOM) costs, labor costs and indirect expenses. The manufacturing cost is the sum of cash cost and depreciation. The total cost (break-even point) is the sum of manufacturing costs and sales, general and administration expense (SG&A).
DisplaySearch defines cash cost as including the yielded bill of materials (BOM) costs, labor costs and indirect expenses. The manufacturing cost is the sum of cash cost and depreciation. The total cost (break-even point) is the sum of manufacturing costs and sales, general and administration expense (SG&A).
Integrated graphics solutions, or shared graphics solutions are graphics processors that utilize a portion of a computer's system RAM rather than dedicated graphics memory
Integrated graphics solutions, or shared graphics solutions are graphics processors that utilize a portion of a computer's system RAM rather than dedicated graphics memory
The problem is that the USB specification requires a 3.3V rail on the transmit (TX) and receive (RX) lines. TX must signal a minimum VOH of 2.8V, and RX can see a maximum VIH of 3.63V. Other signals (DP/DM and VBUS) can see signals as large as 5.25V.
- 0.9 to 1.2V for digital and low-voltage analog circuits
- 2.5V to supply the analog circuitry
- 3.3V to supply the USB PHY I/O that handles higher voltage levels
nanoPHY
For example, a separate power-management chip is a good candidate for integrating the PHY
The "dis-integration" approach relies upon a relatively new USB standard called the UTMI+ Low Pin Interface (ULPI) for connecting the USB controller and PHY
ULPI reduces the interface from approximately 40 - pins to 8 - 12 pins.
eliminating cables and the analog component in the PHY
Link Power Management (LPM)
he DesignWare USB 2.0 nanoPHY's floorplan allows the digital block to scale with smaller process geometrie
Reduce the size of the MOS device in the codec, and flicker noise increases; increase resistance and thermal noise also rises
Even minimizing the supply voltage in the analog environment isn't necessarily the solution, as this has an effect of reducing signal swing, which has a negative effect on SNR
Figure 2 shows how having the same SNR from a lower supply voltage can increase power use
This is caused by the need to raise bias currents to lower thermal noise and compensate for the loss of signal swing