Google does everything from building smartphones to creating driverless car companies. So it’s easy to forget that its official mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally ...

Design critiques–the process whereby a team gets together and reviews a design or a product prototype–can be painful. When people aren’t on the same page about goals and context, critiques can take a ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Michael White, Director of Product Marketing, Calibre Physical Verification products, Mentor Graphics In recent years, ...

Each week Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week we look at how to break design "rules." Stick with the same ...

Mirkin and coworkers use DNA-decorated gold nanoparticles that assemble into periodic lattices via hybridization between DNA strands on adjacent particles. The researchers now report that the ...

Kitsch is out and modernism is in under new architectural standards being proposed for the city by the lead designer at the city's Urban Design Studio. But just as free-speech advocates defend even ...

The rules governing design patents are about to change for the better, according to Scott Zhang, a partner at Kangxin Partners. He explains the implications of the impending changes During the past ...

Why it's essential to combine sign-off accuracy, iterative feedback, and intelligent automation in complex designs.

Variation, edge placement error, and a variety of other issues at new process geometries are forcing chipmakers and EDA vendors to confront a growing volume of increasingly complex, and sometimes ...

Consumer electronics, industrial, robotics, medical, and military applications all frequently use an AC/DC power supply, also referred to as AC/DC converter. An accurate design of the power supply ...

The self-assembly of block copolymer thin films can generate dense nanoscale patterns over large areas 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. When directed by a sparse topographic or chemical template, the block copolymers ...