System-on-chip (SoC) designs are becoming more and more complex, by whatever means you measure it: power domains, gate count, packing densities, heat dissipation capacities, etc. At such high packing ...

Before LEDs became cheap enough to be ubiquitous, flip-card displays were about the only way to get a digital clock. These entirely electromechanical devices had their own charm, and they have a ...

Editor’s preface: There is increasing interest in the ‘new’ smart card chip manufacturing technique known as Flip Chip. An alternative to the tradional manufacturing process that attached chips to ...