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Integrating CCD and CMOS technology to improve CMOS imager performance
Integrating CCD and CMOS technology to improve CMOS imager performance
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The imec nanoelectronics research centre is developing an embedded CCD in CMOS TDI image sensor for space applications…
Programme offers increased visibility for marketable Arduino-based designs
Programme offers increased visibility for marketable Arduino-based designs
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Prototypes created using Arduino frequently become products, and the Arduino brand is used to carry ideas of quality and ease…
Isolated high-side switch for industrial automation designs
Isolated high-side switch for industrial automation designs
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STMicroelectronics has introduced an octal high-side switch featuring integrated galvanic isolation, employing an RF communication technique through the isolation layer…
Faster code from development toolchain for TI’s MSP430 MCUs
Faster code from development toolchain for TI’s MSP430 MCUs
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IAR Systems is claiming an upgraded level of performance for code created in its embedded development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench…

Partnership aims to deliver touchless gesture control for consumer devices
Partnership aims to deliver touchless gesture control for consumer devices
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Wolfson Microelectronics, fabless mixed-signal device and audio solutions maker, and Elliptic Labs, a company that works in the field of ultrasonic touchless gesturing for consumer electronic devices, have announced a…
Revitalizing the older product
Revitalizing the older product
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Your company has a product that is ten, or more, years old. Much has happened in those past ten years – technology has radically changed and the companies your company…
RTL compiler ups physically-aware capabilities for complex chip design
RTL compiler ups physically-aware capabilities for complex chip design
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Cadence has announced expanded features for physically-aware synthesis in its RTL Compiler, with benfits for power, performance and area; physical considerations are brought into play earlier in the synthesis process…
More expansion options for Raspberry Pi/Arduino
More expansion options for Raspberry Pi/Arduino
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Designed by Gert van Loo, Gertduino is the successor product to the massively popular Gertboard: available from element14 Gertduino is an Arduino-Uno like board that was created by Gert van…
EMI shielded windows with integrated touchscreen meet operating-theatre needs
EMI shielded windows with integrated touchscreen meet operating-theatre needs
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Chomerics Europe has gained a design win for its shielded window products with a designer and manufacturer of cardiovascular medical devices. The windows, which also incorporate a resistive touchscreen, are…
Altium speeds design using FTDI’s EVE HMI
Altium speeds design using FTDI’s EVE HMI
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Altium in cooperation with FTDI has announced board design support and PCB design content for Altium Designer users supporting the FTDI FT800 family of HMI solutions, the Embedded Video Engine…
Murata adopts Powervation’s Digital Control Architecture in PoL DC-DC
Murata adopts Powervation’s Digital Control Architecture in PoL DC-DC
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Murata has announced the first in a series of Point-of- Load (PoL) non-isolated DC-DC converters based on the Digital Control Architecture from Powervation. The OKLF 25A PoL is intended for…
“LiFi” – a proposal for massive-MIMO visible-light communication networks
“LiFi” – a proposal for massive-MIMO visible-light communication networks
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National Instruments and the University of Edinburgh are collaborating on work to use LED lighting as a vehicle for local, in-room, broadband download connections.
Next; the sniffing smartphone? – Sensirion proposes multi-gas sensor ‘nose’
Next; the sniffing smartphone? – Sensirion proposes multi-gas sensor ‘nose’
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Sensirion, vendor of temperature and humidity sensors, has developed a multi-gas sensor that it is planning to sell to smartphone makers.
Mitigating antenna effect in integrated circuit design
Mitigating antenna effect in integrated circuit design
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The density and speed of ICs have increased exponentially for several decades, following a trend described by Moore’s Law. With the increasing density and Gate oxide width reducing with each…
Channel emulation for IEEE 802.11ac spans full 160 MHz bandwidth
Channel emulation for IEEE 802.11ac spans full 160 MHz bandwidth
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Anite claims, with the Propsim F8, to have the first 802.11ac (Wi-Fi) capable channel emulation solutions with continuous 160 MHz bandwidth support, allowing chipset manufacturers to speed up the development…
5Gbit/sec line-of-sight infrared connection supports fast data sharing
5Gbit/sec line-of-sight infrared connection supports fast data sharing
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have developed a new data link that uses infrared light as a transmission medium, reaching data rates up to 5 gigabits…
Advantech acquires intelligent display company GPEG
Advantech acquires intelligent display company GPEG
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Advantech is to acquire UK-based Intelligent Display Company GPEG. After the merger, GPEG’s original management team will remain unchanged, and will join Advantech Embedded Core Computing Group, under the name…
CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras uses silicon-on-silicon packaging
CMOS image sensor for automotive cameras uses silicon-on-silicon packaging
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A CMOS sensor from Toshiba is intended to aid the simplification and downsizing of camera systems; this VGA, 1/4-in. CMOS image sensor is for automotive applications including rear view cameras…
Secure microcontrollers to protect data in cloud-based transactions
Secure microcontrollers to protect data in cloud-based transactions
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Inside Secure and Intrinsic-ID have announced a new class of secure microcontrollers for smart cards, and other applications that apply Hardware Intrinsic Security (HIS), to provide the highest levels of…
Arbitrary waveform generators step up bandwidths to 160 MHz
Arbitrary waveform generators step up bandwidths to 160 MHz
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Teledyne LeCroy's WaveStation function/arbitrary waveform generators now includes three models with bandwidth up to 160 MHz and 500 Msamples/sec sample rate — over three times more bandwidth and four times…
32-bit PICs gain high-end, connectivity-oriented chip series
32-bit PICs gain high-end, connectivity-oriented chip series
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Microchip has extended its PIC32 series of 32-bit microcontrollers with the MZ family of chips, initially comprising 24 variants, that is positioned as a high-end “embedded connectivity” offering with higher…
FPGA-based acceleration on IBM Power Systems with OpenCL
FPGA-based acceleration on IBM Power Systems with OpenCL
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Altera has announced that the latest release of the its software development kit SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. This, Altera says, strengthens…
Safety package specific to STM32 microcontrollers in development
Safety package specific to STM32 microcontrollers in development
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ST has signed an agreement with Yogitech to develop a comprehensive safety package for STM32 microcontrollers; the joint effort aims to speed up time-to-market for critical safety applications in industrial-…
Large-scale integration of neuronics: Part 2
Large-scale integration of neuronics: Part 2
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Dennis Feucht discusses storage and refresh in the context of analog computation…
Secure device-to-device LTE-A links could offload network traffic
Secure device-to-device LTE-A links could offload network traffic
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Analysts predict an explosive growth in traffic demand on mobile broadband systems over the coming years. Cellular deployments will fall short of the required capacity unless there is a dramatic…
TI broadens scope of DSP/ARM multicore software development kits
TI broadens scope of DSP/ARM multicore software development kits
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Texas Instruments has extended the range of low-power DSP + ARM devices covered by its MCSDK software, which now includes the OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM9 low-cost development kit, reducing development…
Ultra-fast data-acquisition digitiser platform
Ultra-fast data-acquisition digitiser platform
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German T&M company Spectrum has announced its first product in what will be a family of systems based on its ultra-fast, modular M4i platform and will, the company says, set…
Car-to-car communications will spawn a generation of dedicated RF signal analysis
Car-to-car communications will spawn a generation of dedicated RF signal analysis
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An essential contribution to Intelligent transport systems (ITS) will be vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, which will use the IEEE 802.11p protocol standard. Testing solutions for this protocols are…


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