Jitter & Noise

EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Monday, October 20, 2008

Measure that….

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A special mention today to ST Microelectronics; today (see the ‘latest news’ column) the company sent me a press release that, as far as I can recall, contains the first use I have seen (in a press release, at any rate) of the multiplier “atto”. The company’s new CMOS imaging chip has a per-pixel dark current measured in aA, which (I’m assuming there’s no misprint here) would be atto-Amps. To save you looking it up, that’s 10 to the power -18. That’s not very much.

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