Special Qualifications
By Lynn Reed

Another set of requests involve reliability studies.  This can range from a simple life test at what is for us an unusual supply voltage, up to a full AES-Q100 automotive qualification on a specific part........

68HC705 Microcontrollers
By Lynn Reed

The Tekmos 68HC05 has been carefully designed to duplicate the original 68HC05 on a clock for clock basis. This guarantees complete compatibility with existing code. Even timing loops will work perfectly......

Accessing Newer Technologies
By Lynn Reed

The newer fabrication technologies provide substantial performance advantages of increased speed and reduced power.  They also provide the disadvantage of increased mask cost......

High Voltage ASICs
By Lynn Reed

We frequently have customers come to us with unusual problems.  We had a customer that had an old 5 volt ASIC that they needed more of.  This is not a problem.  But they wanted to include a..............

Does anyone really know what time it is
By Lynn Reed

Clocks. The 68020 contains at least 6 of them, generated from a single input clock. But it is not clear what the timing relationship between them is. And this matters because a number of the strobes are..........

High Temp ASICs
By Lynn Reed

Tekmos shipped our first 250C ASIC in July. It was made using the X-FAB 1.0u SOI process. I would like to discuss some of the things we learned from our first ASIC.  To begin with, while the first ASIC was designed to work at 3.3 volts....

Product Development
By Lynn Reed

The year 2012 was a good one for Tekmos. After the 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tekmos obtained the rights to the Freescale 68XX microcontrollers. This year saw us bring these parts......