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HV automotive battery stack monitor ups accuracy, meets ISO26262
HV automotive battery stack monitor ups accuracy, meets ISO26262
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LTC6811 is a high voltage battery stack monitor, a drop-in replacement for the LTC6804 with higher performance and 25% lower…
5000 µF capacitor can be embedded in a smartcard
5000 µF capacitor can be embedded in a smartcard
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An electric double-layer capacitor from TDK presents 5 mF capacitance in a package with a maximum thickness of 0.45 mm,…
Home-automation reference designs build in ZigBee, Thread
Home-automation reference designs build in ZigBee, Thread
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From Silicon Labs, reference designs for connected lighting; a dimmable light switch; a contact sensor; and a smart gateway, feature…
Bluetooth ICs designed around wearable healthcare products – with NFC
Bluetooth ICs designed around wearable healthcare products – with NFC
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Toshiba Electronics Europe has added two Bluetooth ICs with integrated Flash ROM, with one also adding the option of integrated…

Qi-Certified, medium power transmitter, wireless charging reference design
Qi-Certified, medium power transmitter, wireless charging reference design
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Rohm has received certification from WPC (Wireless Power Consortium) for its reference design using the BD57020MWV wireless power transmitter IC. This, Rohm believes, is the first device certified to be…
Unused pins come back to bite
Unused pins come back to bite
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James Bryant, who was an applications manager for Analog Devices for 30 years, considers what is the second-most common cause of analog design problems (The most common cause is grounding).
PEZY licenses 64-bit MIPS CPUs for “green” supercomputers
PEZY licenses 64-bit MIPS CPUs for “green” supercomputers
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Japanese supercomputing venture PEZY Computing has announced it is working on a MIPS64-based PEZY-SC2 family of many-core chips for supercomputers and HPC (high-performance-computing) applications that will scale up to 4096…
Could Qualcomm be China’s next target?
Could Qualcomm be China’s next target?
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Recent events and financial results have started to make Qualcomm's leading position as an application processor supplier look like a poisoned chalice. Could the company now be vulnerable to an…
Cadence hosts emulation on “datacentre-class” installations
Cadence hosts emulation on “datacentre-class” installations
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Cadence says it, “Ushers in [a] new era of datacenter-class emulation” with its Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform. Claims include up to 5x greater emulation throughput, with an average 2.5x…
AMD initiative to encourage spread of GPU computing
AMD initiative to encourage spread of GPU computing
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AMD has launched its ‘Boltzmann Initiative’, that aims to 'dramatically' reduce barriers to GPU computing, using its own AMD FirePro Graphics as a vehicle; new tools promise compute power of…
Altera FPGAs accelerate algorithms in Texas academic compute resource
Altera FPGAs accelerate algorithms in Texas academic compute resource
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A new server cluster uses Altera FPGAs to help researchers and academia run complex algorithmic-based research.
Linux driver enables MOST for Linux ecosystem
Linux driver enables MOST for Linux ecosystem
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The MOST Cooperation - the standardisation organisation for the Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) automotive multimedia network has announced that the Linux Mainline Kernel starting with Version 4.3 will include…
Radio comms functional tester for wireless M2M/IoT integration
Radio comms functional tester for wireless M2M/IoT integration
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Machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are the intended application area for the R&S CMW290 functional radio communication tester; Rohde & Schwarz describes it as, “the right…
Radio spectrum allocated for global flight tracking
Radio spectrum allocated for global flight tracking
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The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference, meeting in Geneva, has opened the path to enables Earth-to-space reception of ADS-B transmissions, which would allow aircraft to be tracked anywhere on Earth, including…
u-blox adds ARM mbed IoT Device Platform for IoT wireless connectivity
u-blox adds ARM mbed IoT Device Platform for IoT wireless connectivity
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u-blox (Thalwil, Switzerland) has opted to use the ARM mbed IoT Device Platform for its customers to build host-less Internet of Things (IoT) wireless applications. By adopting the open ARM…
Class-H audio amp promises richer sound from smaller devices
Class-H audio amp promises richer sound from smaller devices
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A smart amplifier enables TI says, deeper, richer and louder audio for next-generation smartphones. The amp, with integrated speaker protection, is supported by a new software suite to accelerate development.
The road to energy efficiency starts here
The road to energy efficiency starts here
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Did you know the invention of robots dates back to XVth century? When Leonardo da Vinci explored the idea of the human body as a machine, he came up with…
High-integration 8 &3A synchronous regulators with phased slaving
High-integration 8 &3A synchronous regulators with phased slaving
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Five high efficiency DC/DC converters step-down 5V rails to point-of-load (POL) rails as low as 0.6V for FPGAs, DSPs and microprocessors. ISL8018 delivers up to 8A of continuous output current…
Who was ‘first to invent’ the computer, the airplane?
Who was ‘first to invent’ the computer, the airplane?
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Scott Elder, a senior analog IC design consultant, considers the term "first to invent" and finds it to be more a national accolade than a global and absolute truth…
Silver nano-ink allows ink-jet print of high-quality conductors
Silver nano-ink allows ink-jet print of high-quality conductors
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Xaar plc, the world leader in industrial inkjet technology, and Lawter, along with its parent company Harima Chemicals Group (HCG), have worked together to optimise the performance of a line…
IP builds patent-free, lightweight VC-2 LD video codec function
IP builds patent-free, lightweight VC-2 LD video codec function
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Barco Silex, provider of video compression IP cores for ASIC and FPGA, announced that its VC-2 Low Delay codec is now available for licensing to broadcast equipment manufacturers. The IP…
Freescale enables ARM mbed IoT Device Platform on Kinetis MCUs
Freescale enables ARM mbed IoT Device Platform on Kinetis MCUs
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Freescale has announced support at introduction, of the ARM mbed software, tools and cloud services for rapid creation of IoT products spanning from end-node to cloud using its Freedom FRDM-K64F…
4 GHz handheld spectrum analyser for field and lab use, from R&S
4 GHz handheld spectrum analyser for field and lab use, from R&S
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Rohde & Schwarz has added a handheld spectrum analyser, featuring low weight and long battery life - the R&S Spectrum Rider. The instrument has a native frequency range of 5…
Scalable security platform for IoT device development
Scalable security platform for IoT device development
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Atmel proposes its Certified-ID Platform as a means of eliminating barriers to entry to a Secure IoT Ecosystem; it simplifies secure Certificate Generation and provides Security Tool Kits for smaller…
ARM extends mbed to aid mass deployment of IoT
ARM extends mbed to aid mass deployment of IoT
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ARM is releasing a suite of products to accelerate secure IoT technology deployments on a large scale by businesses. ARM mbed IoT Device Platform products and technologies include mbed Device…
Heating up: beneath the surface
Heating up: beneath the surface
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Earlier this week, Microsoft kicked off sales of its long awaited Surface Pro 4, the professional hybrid tablet for those looking for “more than just a laptop”.
Book review: CHIPS 2020 updates essential view of nanoelectronics
Book review: CHIPS 2020 updates essential view of nanoelectronics
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CHIPS 2020 Vol 2: New Vistas in Nanoelectronics, edited by Bernd Hoefflinger, follows on from the successful CHIPS 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanoelectronics, published in 2012.
Altera to pack HBM2 DRAM alongside its FPGAs in single package
Altera to pack HBM2 DRAM alongside its FPGAs in single package
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Aiming to break bandwidth bottlenecks in high-performance systems, Altera has unveiled what the company claims to be the industry's first heterogeneous System-in-Package (SiP) devices that integrate stacked High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2)…


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