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Integrated sensor nodes with GSM modems: simplifying the task of wireless data acquisition
Integrated sensor nodes with GSM modems: simplifying the task of wireless data acquisition
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A sensor network typically consists of a number of sensor nodes which each acquire signals from a sensor or multiple…
Win one of ten EPC9002 development boards for your power applications
Win one of ten EPC9002 development boards for your power applications
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This month, EPC is giving away ten of its EPC9002 development board kits, worth USD 95 each. Rated at 100V…
Bringing P-Cap touch sensing into the handheld industrial equipment sector
Bringing P-Cap touch sensing into the handheld industrial equipment sector
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The level of demand for small format touchscreens based on projected capacitive (p-cap) sensor technology continues to grow at a…
Increasing system performance through the use of optical encoders
Increasing system performance through the use of optical encoders
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Optical encoders have been used to measure position, speed, acceleration and motion direction for decades, but now they are finding…

Hyperspectral imaging: seeing the invisible
Hyperspectral imaging: seeing the invisible
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Shrimps see what we, humans don't see. Mantis shrimps have a compound eye which allows them to see in the ultraviolet down into the infrared whereas human eyes can only…
Sensing electrical potentials for touchless control
Sensing electrical potentials for touchless control
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Every engineer is familiar with the voltages and currents in an electric circuit. These quantities can be measured easily enough with the two probes of a digital voltmeter. But few…
NFC-enabled phones as a tool for brand protection
NFC-enabled phones as a tool for brand protection
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Counterfeiting has grown tremendously over the last decade. According to government data, officials seized $188 million worth of counterfeited merchandise in the U.S. in 2010. Not only is the overall…
NFC solutions are ramping up: not just for secure mobile payment transactions
NFC solutions are ramping up: not just for secure mobile payment transactions
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Some 475 million contactless cards with microcontrollers are to be delivered in 2011, a 28% increase on the previous year's figure, according to Eurosmart – www.eurosmart.com – and last month’s…
ARM drives into embedded applications with new module format
ARM drives into embedded applications with new module format
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Two major embedded board vendors were pushing the ARM architecture at the SPS/IPC/Drives exhibition but x86 in other formats are still moving forwards, particularly for graphics performance in embedded applications.
Amplifiers are the hidden heroes of any system
Amplifiers are the hidden heroes of any system
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We often take for granted that amplifiers can handle any input signal voltage ranging from microvolts to beyond the power supplies, operate on almost any voltage, and output a signal…
Who should be taking control over your digital trail?
Who should be taking control over your digital trail?
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Every day, the online marketing industry, intertwined with search engines, social networks and mass self-communication platforms (such as blogs, social tagging, twitter), exchanges vast amounts of personal data across the…
Research project illuminates OLEDs’ industrial future
Research project illuminates OLEDs’ industrial future
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OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) have the potential to complement conventional silicon-based LEDs as the lighting technology of the future. Both technologies waste much less electric energy than incandescent lamps…
Productronica: industry forges ahead with battery technology
Productronica: industry forges ahead with battery technology
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The market for electric vehicles will be one of the hottest and most competitive ones for the high-tech industry around the globe. More and more, the insight prevails that the…
Win one of four plug computer kits for your cloud computing or media streaming applications
Win one of four plug computer kits for your cloud computing or media streaming applications
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This month, Marvell is giving away four D2Plug development kits, version 1.0 to set up a plug computer for your cloud computing or media streaming applications. Worth $249, the unit…
Haptics for tumour detection during minimally invasive surgery
Haptics for tumour detection during minimally invasive surgery
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Each year, more than 10 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. More than one in three people develop some form of cancer in their lifetime and approximately one in…
Controlling lighting via the power line
Controlling lighting via the power line
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Intelligent control of large lighting installations, such as street lighting and lighting in office buildings, offers an important way for municipal authorities, governments and large corporations to reduce both carbon…
The energy efficiency directive proposal: a good start
The energy efficiency directive proposal: a good start
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The most cost-efficient and secure unit of energy is the one that is not used, the “Negawatt”. That sounds like a platitude, but energy efficiency has been neglected in the…
Instrument cluster: a landscape in transition
Instrument cluster: a landscape in transition
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In the next car generation, not much will remain the way we are used to: yes, the engine will be electric, or at least hybrid electric. Advanced driver assistance systems…
Microcontrollers for solar inverters
Microcontrollers for solar inverters
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Until now, the photovoltaic market has recorded a growth in the high double-digit figures. But international competition is becoming tougher, forcing manufacturers to come up with innovations and adjust the…
The next crop of technologies at Imec’s 2011 technology forum
The next crop of technologies at Imec’s 2011 technology forum
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Early October, imec’s ground-breaking ceremony for what will be a state-of-the-art energy-efficient 16 floors tower rising over the company’s campus was also an opportunity for the research centre to give…
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
FPGA rivals continue to play ‘follow the leader’
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Xilinx has announced it is now shipping the Virtex-7 2000T, which uses a stacked silicon approach to create a device with 6.8 billion transistors. It shatters Altera’s previous title of…
Autosar between home stretch and new challenges
Autosar between home stretch and new challenges
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Autosar, the common software architecture for cars, is becoming increasingly relevant for real-world automotive electronics design. While earlier Autosar releases defined basic functionality and development methodologies, the current version takes…
Being clever about design
Being clever about design
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The official focus at this year's Sophia-Antipolis Microelectronics forum (SAME) was digital mobility, something that ought to be happening anytime, anywhere, providing any content on any device. Keynote speakers compiled…
Efficient DC/DC power supply design for advanced data systems
Efficient DC/DC power supply design for advanced data systems
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In constant pursuit of improved system operating efficiency and performance, the trend for the operating input voltages of digital and mixed signal components in data storage and communication systems is…
Multicore takes a new direction
Multicore takes a new direction
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With the release of ARM's Cortex-A7 MPCore it addresses two vital aspects of embedded systems; power and performance. However, the addition of its 'big.LITTLE’ concept may indicate it’s not quite…
Win one of seven TWR-K70F120M kits
Win one of seven TWR-K70F120M kits
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This month, Freescale is giving away seven of its brand new TWR-K70F120M kits designed around the Kinetis K70 ARM Cortex M4 microcontroller. The 32-bit Kinetis MCUs represent the most scalable…
Design guidelines for embedding real time face detection
Design guidelines for embedding real time face detection
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Embedded computer vision systems able to analyse and extract information from video are now found in a variety of products, often delivered within size, cost, and power limitations. Emerging high-volume…
Adaptive real time DSP architecture for power grid optimisation
Adaptive real time DSP architecture for power grid optimisation
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Over the past few decades, we have experienced an exponential growth of power supply systems with non-linear characteristics that cause serious harmonic pollution. This can lead to several adverse effects…


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