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Feature articles Page 149
Modern embedded solutions for graphical interfaces
Modern embedded solutions for graphical interfaces
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User habits and data structures have changed significantly not only in the consumer sector, but also in the applications of…
The modern automotive display touch-lens interface
The modern automotive display touch-lens interface
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The center stack panel area of today's vehicles has become the integration site for many occupant interface technologies and is…
Smart home splits over low power
Smart home splits over low power
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Developments for networking the smart home are diverging over the use of energy harvesting and low power technologies.
Covisint brings connected car, version 1964, to auto show
Covisint brings connected car, version 1964, to auto show
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The connected car has yet to come? Wrong, says software company Covisint which is active in the field of automotive…

Power management for solid state drives
Power management for solid state drives
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Last year's monsoon in Southeast Asia created a turning point in the memory storage market. Flooding in Thailand caused the shutdown of many hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturing sites, resulting…
High power applications get efficiency boost through special IGBT design
High power applications get efficiency boost through special IGBT design
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Energy efficiency requirements set by Regulatory Agencies in different regions are steering the adoption of very efficient power semiconductors and enabling smart system solutions in order to meet the efficiency…
Powering LED luminaires: is EMC mitigation or prevention the best option?
Powering LED luminaires: is EMC mitigation or prevention the best option?
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Compromises and work-arounds undertaken in an effort to meet the requirements of electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC) have had the potential in the past to markedly impair the reliability and efficiency, and…
ZigBee to the rescue of Fifth Play services
ZigBee to the rescue of Fifth Play services
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Cable companies and service providers worldwide are about to start rolling out a new Fifth Play service offering that makes the connected home more of a smart home.
Optimising mobile networks with MIMO and DAS
Optimising mobile networks with MIMO and DAS
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With the growth in wireless usage due to smart phones, tablet computers and a growing applications developer base, mobile operators are constantly looking for ways to deliver more capacity in…
Architectural exploration in the design of application-specific processors
Architectural exploration in the design of application-specific processors
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Today's semiconductor industry is driven by the rapidly growing market of smart consumer devices. These products are feature-rich, multi-sensing, wirelessly connected, always-on, and green.
Secure car access: when proximity is the key
Secure car access: when proximity is the key
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Picture the scene. It’s late at night, dark, raining. A tired businesswoman approaches her car in the airport car-park, and sighs wearily as she puts down her files, laptop and…
Automotive headlamps demand buck-boost LED drivers
Automotive headlamps demand buck-boost LED drivers
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Nowadays, automotive drive trains range from purely electric (EV) to high efficiency internal combustion, to a myriad of combinations (commonly referred to as hybrids).
ISO26262 in automotive IC development: just a tick-box exercise?
ISO26262 in automotive IC development: just a tick-box exercise?
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Car manufacturers started using ICs to control safety applications as early as the 1980s.
Is there a lead-free universal alloy?
Is there a lead-free universal alloy?
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Since the introduction of the ROHS, the European industry has concentrated its choice on two types of lead-free alloys: tin-silver-copper alloys and tin-copper alloys close to the Sn/Cu eutectic with…
Will China bury its bad IP past?
Will China bury its bad IP past?
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China is big. China is not homogeneous. It has a poor record of protecting intellectual property.
How linear phase filters can still cause phase distortion
How linear phase filters can still cause phase distortion
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People often ask me to talk about the waveform distortion that can be introduced by filtering.
Automating to reduce the analogue design bottleneck
Automating to reduce the analogue design bottleneck
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Analogue layout has traditionally been considered to be more challenging than digital layout. For example, it takes considerably more time to achieve a high level of expertise in analog layout…
Efficient implementation of complex matrix inversion on the StarCore SC3900 DSP
Efficient implementation of complex matrix inversion on the StarCore SC3900 DSP
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Complex matrix algebra is of great importance for a wide variety of applications. One of the most important application areas is wireless communications.
Mouser Electronics: Where the European Design Community goes to First
Mouser Electronics: Where the European Design Community goes to First
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The future of technology holds a world of promise. Unprecedented advances in mobile computing, robotics, touch sensing, energy harvesting, and other innovations hold the potential to radically transform the world…
French startup takes on FPGAs with multicore DSP chip
French startup takes on FPGAs with multicore DSP chip
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A French chip startup has just sampled the first silicon of a massively parallel digital signal processing (DSP) chip to take on field programmable FPGAs.
Smart grids turn to wireless systems
Smart grids turn to wireless systems
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As one of very few smart metering-providers Kamstrup offers RF-communication in their smart metering-system and has done so for more than ten years.
AC LEDs – a solution for many problems?
AC LEDs – a solution for many problems?
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One of the advantages of LEDs over competing lighting technologies is their longer operational life. In many cases, the driver electronics have become the limiting factor. But drivers a no…
Piezo wireless switch: No battery, no cable, no wear
Piezo wireless switch: No battery, no cable, no wear
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The principles behind using piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting are well known since the early 70's. Despite various patents on such energy harvesting implementations, barely few inventions have been crystallized…
Keeping open source software free
Keeping open source software free
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The May 2nd 2012 ruling by the European Court of Justice (EUCJ) clearly excluded software functionality from the protection granted by the 1991 directive on the legal protection of computer…
Merging the benefits of CCD and CMOS for imaging
Merging the benefits of CCD and CMOS for imaging
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Over the last decades, the imager world has seen numerous publications on the comparison of CCD and CMOS imaging technologies. Intense discussions and even fierce disputes about the superiority of…
Low power system design optimizations with SAR A/D Converters
Low power system design optimizations with SAR A/D Converters
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Power consumption is one of the key requirements for battery powered A/D converter applications today.
UK leads in energy efficiency rankings as Germany pushes ahead
UK leads in energy efficiency rankings as Germany pushes ahead
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Somewhat surprisingly, the UK is leading the energy efficiency ranking of the world's twelve largest economies, according to the International Energy Efficiency Scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient…
Enhancing automotive safety through advanced IR sensor technology
Enhancing automotive safety through advanced IR sensor technology
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Occupancy classification system (OCS) implementations have become an increasingly standard part of the safety capabilities found in modern cars.


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