EDN

8-Bit I/O Expander with SPI Interface

The MCP23S08 is an 8-bit I/O expander with serial interface. This device offers 8-bit, general purpose, parallel I/O expansion for SPI applications. It has two hardware address pins and uses SPI ...
Electronic Design

Serial I/O Interfaces Dominate Data Communications

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Practically every electronic product made today uses one or more serial data interfaces. A serial interface is the ...
EDN

SMSC rolls I/O Port Expander and DTCP Co-Processor for MOST Networks

Semiconductor vendor SMSC has announced the OS85650 I/O companion chip for MOST Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (INICs). With its multiple interfaces, routing engine and the DTCP ...
Design-Reuse

Common I/O design strategies for high-speed interfaces

High-speed serial interfaces are proliferating in chips used in the metro communications application space. Various standards are developed around the evolving common methodology of implementing high ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Chiplet Interfaces Embrace Failures

Redundancy in chiplet interfaces is now a prerequisite for achieving sufficient yield in high-performance computing devices, which today are packed with tens of thousands of interconnects. And as the ...