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10-A backup power controller manages supercapacitor stacks
10-A backup power controller manages supercapacitor stacks
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LTC3350 is a supercapacitor charger and backup controller IC that includes all of the features necessary to provide a complete,…
Thinnest soundbar uses Gorilla Glass as loudspeaker transducer element
Thinnest soundbar uses Gorilla Glass as loudspeaker transducer element
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Haptic and flat-screen audio specialist Redux Labs has unveiled the market’s thinnest soundbar for high-end HDTVs, combining a sleek look…
Asynchronous SRAM with on-chip error-correcting code cuts soft errors
Asynchronous SRAM with on-chip error-correcting code cuts soft errors
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SRAM maker Cypress Semiconductor is sampling a 16 Mb fast asynchronous SRAM with error-correcting code (ECC). The on-chip ECC feature…
UK claims lead in quantum sensor development
UK claims lead in quantum sensor development
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The UK believes it has a major global lead in the development of quantum clocks and sensors for navigation.

Is LTE cellular the right technology for vehice-vehicle comms?
Is LTE cellular the right technology for vehice-vehicle comms?
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During the recent GSA meeting in Munich, the perspectives of Vehicle-to-X technologies were one of the topics for a keynote speech. Dirk Lindemeier, Head of Liquid Applications at Nokia Solutions…
The Wireless Power Challenge for the medtech industry
The Wireless Power Challenge for the medtech industry
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One sector that stands to gain a great deal from wirelessly powered devices is the medical industry.
Toshiba 24-nm 8 Gb BENAND SLC NAND flash now in distribution
Toshiba 24-nm 8 Gb BENAND SLC NAND flash now in distribution
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Distributor Rutronik is supplying Toshiba 8 Gb 24-nm BENAND SLC (single level cell) NAND flash memory with embedded 8-bit error correction (ECC). You can employ the latest 24nm technology in…
Reference design to gather smart electricity distribution data faster, more accurately
Reference design to gather smart electricity distribution data faster, more accurately
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Maxim Integrated’s Petaluma reference design enables more intelligent grid data management with 3-phase, high-speed analogue data collection, yielding real-time measurements for utilities and infrastructure providers to simultaneously and accurately measure…
congatec diversifies into single board computers with mini-ITX intro
congatec diversifies into single board computers with mini-ITX intro
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The first Mini-ITX board to be launched in congatec’s Professional Line is the conga-IGX, which is based on AMD Embedded G-Series SOC technology. The Professional Line is characterised by advanced…
Drop-in, cryptography security solution for OpenSSL servers
Drop-in, cryptography security solution for OpenSSL servers
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Microsemi’s WhiteboxSSL will, the company asserts, offer a means of protection against future “Heartbleed-like” attacks; Microsemi says that WhiteboxSSL is more than a patch, and is a fundamental drop-in security…
Tomorrow’s power grid needs new architecture and DC distribution, says Fraunhofer
Tomorrow’s power grid needs new architecture and DC distribution, says Fraunhofer
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Scientists at The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB in Erlangen, Germany are calling for a radical overhaul of power grid technology and how it is managed…
Win a package to promote your Bluetooth product, from the Bluetooth SIG
Win a package to promote your Bluetooth product, from the Bluetooth SIG
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has opened the call for submissions for the Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards 2015. Top prize is a fully-funded package for the winner to promote their…
14-bit, 2 Gsample/sec converters boost performance, ease of use
14-bit, 2 Gsample/sec converters boost performance, ease of use
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Analog Devices has introduced two high speed analogue-to-digital converters at 14-bits and 1 or 2 Gsamples/sec, that the company says are the best such parts for handling wide bandwidth signals,…
Configuring complex audio use cases with WISCE and Android
Configuring complex audio use cases with WISCE and Android
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How often do you think about the complexity of your smartphone? A modern smartphone is a marvel of complexity packed into a very small package.
Pick the right tools and make yourself comfortable at home
Pick the right tools and make yourself comfortable at home
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According to the UK's Office of National Statistics and Forbes, 2.8 million of the UK population now work from home regularly, alongside 1 in 5 Americans.
Power supply vendors swap places in top-10 ranking
Power supply vendors swap places in top-10 ranking
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According to a study produced by industry analyst IHS Technology, the global market for AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies rose by a modest 2.4% last year (2013), but much of…
Panasonic’s MCUs with resistive RAM, now in distribution
Panasonic’s MCUs with resistive RAM, now in distribution
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Mouser Electronics has the MN101L 8-bit Microcontrollers from Panasonic, the first microcontrollers with internal Resistive RAM (ReRAM). Resistive RAM is a new non-volatile embedded memory that offers five times the…
Reference design outputs 4 analogue variables, cuts component count
Reference design outputs 4 analogue variables, cuts component count
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Using one-third fewer components, this high-efficiency reference design from Maxim Integrated, the Alameda subsystem, is a flexible 4-channel bipolar analogue output module for industrial automation applications.
Automate power- and thermal-cycle test with Mentor Graphics’ MicReD 1500A
Automate power- and thermal-cycle test with Mentor Graphics’ MicReD 1500A
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Mentor Graphics’ MicReD Industrial Power Tester 1500A is a complete, packaged system for power cycling and thermal testing of electronics components to simulate and measure lifetime performance.
Dual carbon battery technology promises charging 20x faster than lithium-ion batteries
Dual carbon battery technology promises charging 20x faster than lithium-ion batteries
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Japanese start-up Power Japan Plus has launched a new battery technology that claims to offer a more sustainable, safer, longer-lasting and cost-effective battery technology with an energy density comparable to…
Wearable tech? – it’s for the birds, cautions analyst (and the cows, and sheep…)
Wearable tech? – it’s for the birds, cautions analyst (and the cows, and sheep…)
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Market analyst IDTechEx has issued a number of reports on the wearable electronics phenomenon, and is now working on a similar exercise covering the veterinary and other “non-human” wearables that…
Integrated wireless controller for IoT runs on 32 µA
Integrated wireless controller for IoT runs on 32 µA
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LPRS has an Internet of Things, system-on-chip fully integrated wireless controller suitable for remote, battery powered sensor systems, with current consumption as low as 32µA…
The Filter Wizard and the Captain’s Log
The Filter Wizard and the Captain’s Log
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Kendall Castor-Perry of Cypress Semiconductor, otherwise known as The Filter Wizard, rediscovers the logarithmic amp and how it can enhance a-to-d conversion.
High-performance industrial DACs yield more accuracy in less space
High-performance industrial DACs yield more accuracy in less space
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Intended for use in industrial automation, process control and building automation, Texas Instruments’ latest digital-to-analogue converters increase the accuracy and performance of programmable logic controller (PLC) I/O modules, field sensors…
Touch display, audio & MCU resource in Arduino-compatible development platform
Touch display, audio & MCU resource in Arduino-compatible development platform
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Building on its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) technology FTDI Chip is introducing a series of Arduino-compatible development platforms. The VM800P series (where P signifies PLUS) gives engineers everything necessary to…
Autosar debugging software boosts access to ECU data
Autosar debugging software boosts access to ECU data
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Software vendor Vector has released a revised version of its Autosar basic software package Microsar AMD (Autosar Monitoring and Debugging). Providing extensive testing and debugging functions for Autosar ECUs, the…
32 Gbit/sec BERT gains clock recovery options
32 Gbit/sec BERT gains clock recovery options
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Clock Recovery options for Anritsu’s MP1800A Signal Quality Analyser (SQA) provide for Bit Error Rate (BER) testing of high-speed interconnects at up to 32.1 Gbit/sec with a single instrument.
Tyre-monitoring software will augment TPMS, infers tread depth
Tyre-monitoring software will augment TPMS, infers tread depth
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Automotive supplier Continental AG has developed a technique that detects if a tyre has insufficient tread depth. The software deduces the actual tread depth from the gradual changes in the…


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