Designers of high-speed and complex wireless SoCs and RFICs need a means of creating passive components. Cadence’s Virtuoso Passive Component Designer represents a complete flow for the design, ...

Engineers generally focus most attention on active components such as transistors, optoelectronic devices, ICs, and the like. In any design, however, the characteristics of passive devices ...

Our October print edition includes a feature article on modular systems for IC test, and our July issue included a special report on bench and modular instruments for semiconductor test applications.

While the U.S. economy was soft during the past year, there has been little impact on the growth of passive components. The market for specific, value-added and application-specific components ...

Most modern electronic devices consist of several key components: transistors, capacitors, resistors, inductors and diodes. Often, they are supplemented by additional components like crystals and ...

TDK is one of the top suppliers of passive components, especially focusing on the automobile industry. We estimate that TDK’s market shares in multilayer ceramic capacitors, or MLCCs, and inductors ...