Electronics Content

High-Frequency Chip Brings Researchers Closer to Next Generation Technology

Andy Fell — August 24, 2017 - 10:37am

A novel, high-frequency electronic chip potentially capable of transmitting tens of gigabits of data per second — a rate that is orders of magnitude above the fastest internet speeds available today — has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis.

Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector for High-Speed Data

Andy Fell — April 03, 2017 - 8:00am

Tiny “black holes” on a silicon wafer make for a new type of photodetector that could move more data at lower cost around the world or across a data center. The technology, developed by electrical engineers at the University of California, Davis, and W&WSens Devices Inc. of Los Altos, California, a Silicon Valley startup, is described in a paper published April 3 in the journal Nature Photonics.

World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip

Andy Fell — June 17, 2016 - 10:30am

A microchip containing one thousand independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.