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Wi-Fi and ZigBee in one chip for networked product designs
Wi-Fi and ZigBee in one chip for networked product designs
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Alpha Micro has available GainSpan's GS2000 single chip solution, the first to bring together two IEEE low power standard wireless…
Software tool company Code Redacquired by NXP
Software tool company Code Redacquired by NXP
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NXP Semiconductors has bought embedded tool vendor Code Red Technologies in a move to strengthen its own microcontroller eco-system.
Teardown: Samsung Galaxy S4
Teardown: Samsung Galaxy S4
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If there is one thing I have learned in my years on this planet, it would be that it is…
Multi-channel, multi-standard signals to 6 GHz from R&S vector generator
Multi-channel, multi-standard signals to 6 GHz from R&S vector generator
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Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the SMW200A high-end vector signal generator that creates complex multichannel scenarios: primarily for communications product…

Free evelopment tools for embedded Linux now available from ARM
Free evelopment tools for embedded Linux now available from ARM
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ARM has extended the scope of its Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE) to provide a fully featured, industry standard, and free-to-use software development environment for Embedded Linux applications…
Intelligent battery sensor improves automotive system performance
Intelligent battery sensor improves automotive system performance
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ams has released a reference design implementing a complete automotive Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS) based on its highly accurate AS8515 data acquisition front end.
Authentication engine enables secure smart card digital transactions
Authentication engine enables secure smart card digital transactions
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Crocus Technology announced a prototype of Match in Place (MiP), a distinctive security technique that strengthens user authentication in digital transactions.
Video processing board offers 4-ch A/V codec in PCIe/104 format
Video processing board offers 4-ch A/V codec in PCIe/104 format
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Sensoray has introduced the ultra-low latency, high performance Model 953-ET: PCIe/104 Form Factor A/V Codec, a board that can simultaneously capture four channels of analogue video and four channels of…
Altera includes SoC-style debug in Cyclone low cost FPGA development kit
Altera includes SoC-style debug in Cyclone low cost FPGA development kit
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Altera has launched its Cyclone V SoC Development Kit to provide a development platform that enables hardware and software developers to accelerate their embedded systems design development.
Single-chip digital radio receivers for consumer electronics
Single-chip digital radio receivers for consumer electronics
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Silicon Labs' Si468x FM use software-defined radio techniques for both DAB/DAB+ and HD Radio for portable and home audio products.
Sensor and imaging systems R&D centre for University of Glasgow
Sensor and imaging systems R&D centre for University of Glasgow
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The University of Glasgow has received funding to create a leading-edge sensor and imaging systems centre; the Scottish Funding Council has pledged £10m to support the Innovation Centre – Sensor…
Bringing greater Quality-of-Service to small cells
Bringing greater Quality-of-Service to small cells
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Mobile devices are wreaking havoc on networks. Computing power and capabilities once possible only through large desktop CPUs have crept into consumers' pockets.
congatec uses AMD G-series to build x86, 4-core, Type 6 COM Express Compact Module
congatec uses AMD G-series to build x86, 4-core, Type 6 COM Express Compact Module
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The conga-TCG combines compact design with improved graphics performance and power efficiency, using processors from the AMD Embedded G-Series SOC (System-On-Chip) family, that integrates the “Jaguar” based processor and AMD…
xCORE industrial multicore microcontrollers gain analogue functions
xCORE industrial multicore microcontrollers gain analogue functions
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XMOS has added a number of analogue functions to its multicore MCUs; integrated analogue functions will reduce component count, save power, and improve signal integrity, allowing designers to combine analogue…
Maintaining investment security with intelligent packaging
Maintaining investment security with intelligent packaging
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System development and manufacture set a wide variety of challenges - all the way from product concept through to final delivery. The choice of the appropriate packaging technology often forms…
Protecting embedded systems against hacking/cyber attacks
Protecting embedded systems against hacking/cyber attacks
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Quadros Systems and Icon Labs have launched a defence against cyber attacks; the Floodgate Packet Filter software adds security and firewall filtering to the RTXC Quadnet Ethernet-TCP/IP stack to protect…
Ultra-wide band radio re-emerges to find role in accurate geo-positioning
Ultra-wide band radio re-emerges to find role in accurate geo-positioning
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Fabless semiconductor company BeSpoon and CEA-Leti have demonstrated an impulse radio ultra-wide band (IR-UWB) integrated circuit able to measure distances within a few centimeters of accuracy.
Ethernet or MOST for the car? – MOST Forum examines automotive optical data communications
Ethernet or MOST for the car? – MOST Forum examines automotive optical data communications
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With a history of twelve years in production, its proponents believe that the prospects for MOST bus technology for automotive infotainment environments are better than ever. At the MOST Forum…
Switch/router makers to become apps providers? ASICs could disappear from comms gear
Switch/router makers to become apps providers? ASICs could disappear from comms gear
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Nick McKeown, an engineering professor at Stanford University, expects a new breed of merchant networking processors to replace ASICs in routers and switches over the next decade.
Integrated PWM waveform generation in CC/CV converter
Integrated PWM waveform generation in CC/CV converter
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Linear Technology's LT3954 is a DC/DC converter designed to operate as a constant-current source and constant-voltage regulator with an internal 5A switch. The device’s internal PWM dimming generator makes it…
RF screening mesh with transparency and unimpeded airflow
RF screening mesh with transparency and unimpeded airflow
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Chomerics Europe's Win-Shield Mesh 100P is suitable for use in a wide range of commercial and military applications allowing airflow from vents to be maintained and displays to remain viewable…
Community-design bid to find healthcare solution for the elderly
Community-design bid to find healthcare solution for the elderly
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Engineers on the element14 Community are being invited to develop an intelligent solution for people living with cognitive impairments and other long term conditions that could change their lives.
Distributor collects thermal management products in a single website
Distributor collects thermal management products in a single website
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Avnet Abacus has launched a Thermal Management microsite which provides an online hub for users to easily source, select and purchase a wide variety of thermal management products from a…
Free download PCB design package updated; new features in DesignSpark PCB Version 5.0
Free download PCB design package updated; new features in DesignSpark PCB Version 5.0
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RS Components has unveiled the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, the company's professional software for schematic capture and PCB layout.
LETI spin-off company secures funding for LED-on-microwire development
LETI spin-off company secures funding for LED-on-microwire development
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Aledia SA (Grenoble, France), a startup developer of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on microwires of gallium-nitride-on-silicon has made its first LEDs on 200-mm diameter wafers and raised €10million in a first…
Reference design puts low-cost remote image sensor signalling on programmable devices
Reference design puts low-cost remote image sensor signalling on programmable devices
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Lattice Semiconductor's SensorExtender reference design remotely locates image sensors up to 8m away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmits and receives video signals at resolutions that range up…
Altera & AMCC target server farms: Altera acquires AMCC product line
Altera & AMCC target server farms: Altera acquires AMCC product line
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Altera and AppliedMicro (Applied Micro Circuits Corporation) have announced that they are to cooperate on solutions for the data centre market, bringing together Altera's programmable solutions with AMCC's ARM-based X-Gene…
Accelerate SoC prototyping on Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA-based FPGAs with partitioning tool
Accelerate SoC prototyping on Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA-based FPGAs with partitioning tool
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Flexras Technologies has released version 3.2 of its Wasga Compiler Design Suite for FPGA-based prototyping. This new release supports the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and includes new features that accelerate SoC…


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