The FPGA industry faces the endless and unavailing task of addressing demand for low-power operation, even as vendors face the lure of performance, density, and price-per-gate advantages of the 65nm process node.
by David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor, EDN
Capacitive proximity sensors embody an old concept that today’s IC technologies promise to deliver. Vendors vie to win over new markets in the automotive, consumer, and industrial markets using methods that combine traditional analog with the best of contemporary digital techniques.