Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced a $16 million collaboration among academia, industry and government that will create the Texas Analog Center of Excellence, TxACE, at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The research center will help create leading-edge analog technology for both traditional electronics and emerging applications. It’s a collaborative effort by the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC), the state, Texas Instruments Inc., the UT System and UT Dallas.
The collaboration will focus on research in analog and radio frequency technologies to help address some of the world’s biggest challenges in such areas as energy efficiency, health care and public safety. The results should enable mixed-signal integrated circuits for state-of-art applications in a wide range of wired and wireless electronics, benefiting markets and people worldwide. (more…)