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Design Contest sponsored by Mouser and Analog Devices offers $20,000 grand prize
Design Contest sponsored by Mouser and Analog Devices offers $20,000 grand prize
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Distributor Mouser Electronics and Analog Devices are sponsoring the 12th annual NASA Tech Briefs magazine "Create the Future" Design Contest,…
Sensor hub chips show spectacular growth, finds market analyst
Sensor hub chips show spectacular growth, finds market analyst
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According to analysis by market researchers IHS Technology, sensor hubs that offload tasks from power-hungry application processors and let mobile…
Size trends in medical sensing; compact technology meets patient needs
Size trends in medical sensing; compact technology meets patient needs
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Medical device design engineers face unprecedented opportunities and challenges; one of the most pressing challenges is to create sensor elements…
MIMO-capable wireless prototyping platform
MIMO-capable wireless prototyping platform
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National Instruments has announced an integrated software defined radio solution for rapidly prototyping high-performance, multichannel wireless communication systems.

Debugging tool supports safety-oriented Linux edition
Debugging tool supports safety-oriented Linux edition
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The Trace32 debugging tool from Lauterbach GmbH is now available for ElinOS, an embedded Linux product from Sysgo. ElinOS runs under Sysgo's safety and security optimised operating System PikeOS as…
Analog Tip: Dynamic power control minimises power loss, maximises temperature range
Analog Tip: Dynamic power control minimises power loss, maximises temperature range
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DACs in industrial systems may be expected to drive a wide range of loads. DACs powered by a fixed supply can dissipate significant power on chip, particularly if the load…
Texas Instruments picks up iBeacons with reference designs
Texas Instruments picks up iBeacons with reference designs
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Texas Instruments has announced its support for iBeacon technology across its Bluetooth low energy portfolio including the company’s Bluetooth Smart SoCs, SimpleLink CC2541 and CC2543 wireless microcontrollers (MCUs), its Bluetooth…
Broadband vector network analyser covers 70 kHz to 145 GHz
Broadband vector network analyser covers 70 kHz to 145 GHz
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Anritsu’s VectorStar ME7838D broadband system provides frequency coverage of 70 kHz to 145 GHz in a single sweep using a coaxial test port, with performance highlights in dynamic range, calibration…
X-ray detector demonstrator on plastic has medical imaging performance
X-ray detector demonstrator on plastic has medical imaging performance
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Researchers from Holst Centre (Netherlands) and imec (Belgium) have demonstrated the first X-ray detector produced on a plastic substrate that is capable of medical-grade performance. The proof-of-concept device delivers high-resolution,…
Tool base consolidates for 16 nm FinFET design at TSMC
Tool base consolidates for 16 nm FinFET design at TSMC
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In what is clearly a co-ordinated announcement orchestrated by foundry TSMC, each of Mentor Graphics, Cadence and Synopsys have stated that their tool chains for TSMC’s 16-nm FinFET process have…
Fixed-ratio DC/DC converters pass 2.5 kW/cubic inch power density
Fixed-ratio DC/DC converters pass 2.5 kW/cubic inch power density
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Vicor has further increased power density, and added digital communication capability, with products added to its ChiP Bus Converter Module (BCM) product family: these ChiP-based BCMs provide power density of…
See CAN data on a smartphone, via a WiFi-gateway
See CAN data on a smartphone, via a WiFi-gateway
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With IPEhub2 and the IPEmotion App, Ipetronik enables users to visualised CAN data on a smartphone or tablet using a WiFi connection. IPEhub2 acts as CAN-WiFi-Gateway and transfers CAN bus…
GHS promises improved results for automotive code with new compiler
GHS promises improved results for automotive code with new compiler
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The 2014 release of the Green Hills Compiler offers a number of improvements over earlier versions. The most significant one for automotive systems designers, according to Green Hills, is that…
Dual-protocol module has concurrent support of ANT and Bluetooth
Dual-protocol module has concurrent support of ANT and Bluetooth
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Dynastream Innovation’s N548 module is aimed at Internet-of-things applications. Based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF51422 SoC, this 2.4 GHz solution is small, future proof and features concurrent support for both ANT…
FPGA DDR4 interface demonstrated to run at 2400 Mbit/sec
FPGA DDR4 interface demonstrated to run at 2400 Mbit/sec
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Xilinx and Agilent have jointly announced that Xilinx’s DDR4 memory solution for its UltraScale devices has completed the Agilent N6462A compliance test running at 2400 Mbit/sec.
Design win for XMOS multicore MCUs in high-end Blu-Ray player
Design win for XMOS multicore MCUs in high-end Blu-Ray player
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OPPO Digital is using the XMOS multicore, determinsitic microcontroller to deliver USB audio, in its “audiophile”-market audio-visual products…
High-integration, single-phase metering SoC
High-integration, single-phase metering SoC
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Maxim Integrated’s ZON M3 single-phase energy meter SoC enables ±0.1% accuracy over a 5000:1 dynamic range.
French consortium to advance pedestrian inertial navigation systems
French consortium to advance pedestrian inertial navigation systems
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Movea SA, developer of embedded software for sensor fusion and motion processing, is teaming up with MEMS foundry Tronics Microsystems SA and the Leti and List research institutes in Grenoble…
Reference design/kit cuts costs of resolver-to-digital conversion
Reference design/kit cuts costs of resolver-to-digital conversion
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Texas Instruments has introduced a programmable microcontroller (MCU) solution to handle resolver-to-digital decoding: the C2000 Microcontroller (MCU) Resolver Kit. This evaluation kit for resolver-to-digital conversion uses less expensive, programmable C2000…
Sophisticated tools accelerate software-defined radio exploration
Sophisticated tools accelerate software-defined radio exploration
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Software-defined radio (SDR) is an increasingly viable and important communications system. In principle, it allows a single hardware design to support communications across a variety of formats, protocols, and frequencies,…
Precision battery monitor front-end and supervisory controller
Precision battery monitor front-end and supervisory controller
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Analog Devices has posted details of the AD8451, a precision analogue front end and controller for testing and monitoring battery cells. A precision fixed gain instrumentation amplifier (IA) measures the…
GPS modules for wearables cut size and power, boost location performance
GPS modules for wearables cut size and power, boost location performance
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CSR and OriginGPS aim to accelerate the adoption of wearable devices with small form factor and low power GNSS modules; the modules, which have integrated antennas, reduce typical size by…
Researchers report porous silicon that generates hydrogen from sunlight
Researchers report porous silicon that generates hydrogen from sunlight
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A team of mechanical engineers at Penn State University have discovered a new method of manufacturing porous silicon which can use solar energy to generate hydrogen from water and could…
SERDES-centric FPGAs put 85k LUTs in economy package for companion-chip roles
SERDES-centric FPGAs put 85k LUTs in economy package for companion-chip roles
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A device family from Lattice combines 40% lower-cost, 30% lower power and 2X functional density in the smallest package to meet the unique needs of fast growing high-volume markets such…
Power module with ultra-wide voltage input for telecom and PoE
Power module with ultra-wide voltage input for telecom and PoE
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A 50W ultra-wide-input power module in sixteenth-brick footprint simplifies Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) applications; ultra-wide input voltage from 18V to 75V accommodates 24V and 48V systems, reduces inventories and is also suitable…
China’s quest for ‘MIPS in wearable’
China’s quest for ‘MIPS in wearable’
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Let's be blunt: Not many serious players in the electronics industry today are sanguine about the survival chances for MIPS processors in a global mobile market where in the last…
Compliance testing for automotive Ethernet and protocols
Compliance testing for automotive Ethernet and protocols
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Ruetz System Solutions has become the first test house successfully accredited for test scopes for automotive Ethernet and Protocols through the German accreditation body DaaKs (Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH, Berlin).
SerDes chipsets serialise data, cut cabling, in automotive applications
SerDes chipsets serialise data, cut cabling, in automotive applications
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Maxim Integrated’s automotive SerDes chipsets enable both shielded twisted pair (STP) and coax cabling, reducing cost and weight of cabling in advanced driver assistance systems.


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