Transistor countThe transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or "chip"). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors are contained in the cache memories, which consist mostly of the same memory cell circuits replicated many times). The rate at which MOS transistor counts have increased generally follows Moore's law, which observed that the transistor count doubles approximately every two years.
Circuit intégré à signaux mixtesA mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die. Their usage has grown dramatically with the increased use of cell phones, telecommunications, portable electronics, and automobiles with electronics and digital sensors. Integrated circuits (ICs) are generally classified as digital (e.g. a microprocessor) or analog (e.g. an operational amplifier). Mixed-signal ICs contain both digital and analog circuitry on the same chip, and sometimes embedded software.
Signoff (electronic design automation)In the automated design of integrated circuits, signoff (also written as sign-off) checks is the collective name given to a series of verification steps that the design must pass before it can be taped out. This implies an iterative process involving incremental fixes across the board using one or more check types, and then retesting the design. There are two types of sign-off's: front-end sign-off and back-end sign-off. After back-end sign-off, the chip goes to fabrication.
Field-programmabilityAn electronic device or embedded system is said to be field-programmable or in-place programmable if its firmware (stored in non-volatile memory, such as ROM) can be modified "in the field", without disassembling the device or returning it to its manufacturer. This is often an extremely desirable feature, as it can reduce the cost and turnaround time for replacement of buggy or obsolete firmware. For example, a digital camera vendor could distribute firmware supporting a new image by instructing consumers to download a new firmware to the camera via a USB cable.
ActelActel Corporation (formerly NASDAQ:ACTL) was an American manufacturer of nonvolatile, low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), mixed-signal FPGAs, and programmable logic solutions. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. In November 2010, Actel was acquired by Microsemi for $430 million. Actel was founded in 1985 and became known for its high-reliability and antifuse-based FPGAs, used in the military and aerospace markets.
Mac OS X v10.5Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) est la sixième version du système d'exploitation Mac OS X d'Apple. Il a officiellement été lancé le vendredi , à (CEST). Cette cinquième mise à jour majeure de Mac OS X est la première à être commercialisée en Universal binaries, pour être compatible tant avec les anciens Macintosh à processeur PowerPC (PPC G4, G5 à partir de ) qu'avec les nouveaux à processeur Intel (CoreDuo, Core2Duo, Xeon), et requiert au minimum de RAM pour d'espace disque.
Joint Test Action GroupLe JTAG (pour Joint Test Action Group) est le nom de la norme IEEE 1149.1 intitulée « Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture », qui été normalisée en 1990. Le terme JTAG, désignant le groupe de travail qui a conçu la norme, est abusivement (mais très largement) utilisé au lieu du terme générique Boundary Scan, ou du sigle TAP (Test Access Port, port d'accès de test). La technique de boundary scan (littéralement, « scrutation des frontières ») est conçue pour faciliter et automatiser le test des cartes électroniques numériques.
Zen 3Zen 3 is the codename for a CPU microarchitecture by AMD, released on November 5, 2020. It is the successor to Zen 2 and uses TSMC's 7 nm process for the chiplets and GlobalFoundries's 14 nm process for the I/O die on the server chips and 12 nm for desktop chips. Zen 3 powers Ryzen 5000 mainstream desktop processors (codenamed "Vermeer") and Epyc server processors (codenamed "Milan"). Zen 3 is supported on motherboards with 500 series chipsets; 400 series boards also saw support on select B450 / X470 motherboards with certain BIOSes.
HyperTransportL'HyperTransport (anciennement Lightning Data Transport ou LDT) est un bus local série/parallèle plus rapide que le bus PCI et qui utilise le même nombre de broches. HyperTransport est une technologie issue des laboratoires Digital. À la suite de la disparition de Digital, le développement fut repris par AMD, IBM et nVidia qui avaient acquis une licence. Le bus hypertransport a connu différentes évolutions offrant une bande passante théorique de : 1.x : : échanges jusqu'à .
POWER8thumb|2 processeurs 6 cores Power8 montés sur un Dual Chip Module (DCM) Le POWER8 est un processeur de la gamme POWER conçu et produit par IBM et annoncé en . Il est gravé en technologie 22 nm, avec une fréquence d'horloge maximum de 4,15 GHz. Une des principales nouveautés annoncées par IBM est la possibilité offerte à des tiers fabricants de composants d'ajouter des éléments dans la nouvelle génération de serveurs à base de POWER8, en particulier en partenariat avec Google.
