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Information about electronic devices and several papers discussed at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2010 in San Francisco, California, is presented. Topics include the use of organic circuits with dual gate thin film transistors and wideband programmable analogue baseband beam former. The Belgian research laboratory IMEC also disclosed its organic analogue to digital converter at the conference.

The article offers information on several papers discussed in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, California. The paper from Harvard University discusses the digital complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) temperature sensor. Intel Corp. has described some of the problems found when designing 45 nanometer microprocessors including increased soft errors. Comments on Samsung Co. Ltd. dynamic random access memory, are presented.

The article focuses on the plans of Polymer Vision to launch its new products in 2008. The company will unveil a colour version of its reliable display at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference to be held in Los Angeles, California. In the later part of 2008, the firm aims to launch Readius, its e-reader/ 3G phone measuring 115x57x21 and unfolds to a 125mm 320x240 display.

Highlights the topics that will be discussed during the International Electron Devices Meeting to be held in San Francisco, California in December 2002. Electronic eyes; Cochlear implants; Carbon nanotube integrated circuits.

Information about several papers discussed at the Globalpress Summit Conference in 2008 in San Francisco, California is presented. The event highlighted problems affecting the semiconductor industry. Chief executive officer (CEO) Moshe Gavrielov of Xilinx Inc. said that there was a 40 percent decrease in design starts for application-specified standard product/application-specified integrated circuits. CEO Ronnie Vashita of eASIC Corp. blamed it to the increasing costs and risk.

A microprocessor clocking at 15.2GHz and drawing just 1.6mW is being described this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, in San Francisco, California. This low power is achieved using 5,000 superconducting Josephson junctions made from niobium. Not only that, instructions and data in the 8-bit processor are transferred in a single flux quantum (SFQ). The low power is due to pulse widths of a few picosecond and heights under 1mV. SFQ circuits process data by observing the pulse shape when single quanta pass through a superconducting ring containing the Josephson junctions.

The article offers information on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) to be held in December 2008 in San Francisco, California.