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Levitation by sound
Levitation by sound
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Veteran microcontroller programmer Ioannis Piliounis considers the use of acoustic waves for levitation.
The Filter Wizard: Just because you’re correct doesn’t mean you’re right
The Filter Wizard: Just because you’re correct doesn’t mean you’re right
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Kendall Castor-Perry learns a lesson at the hands of a bright young engineer and drops a hint about an upcoming…
Levitation by acoustic wave
Levitation by acoustic wave
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Veteran microcontroller programmer Ioannis Piliounis considers the use of acoustic waves for levitation.
Chinese company to raise $12.5bn for memory wafer fab
Chinese company to raise $12.5bn for memory wafer fab
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China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd., a state-controlled conglomerate, is planning to invest 80 billion yuan (about $12.5 billion) in a memory…

Internet will run out of power by 2020 warns analyst
Internet will run out of power by 2020 warns analyst
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CHIPS 2020 Vol 2: New Vistas in Nanoelectronics looks at the state-of-the-art in nanoelectronics but its most significant finding is at the global scale; that unless changes are made the…
ARM mbed platform for IoT now includes Device Connector
ARM mbed platform for IoT now includes Device Connector
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ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has announced an enhanced platform of technologies for the deployment of the Internet of Things under the mbed name.
Design win; Atmel’s ARM & AVR cores in TomTom Spark GPS fitness watches
Design win; Atmel’s ARM & AVR cores in TomTom Spark GPS fitness watches
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Atmel has disclosed that the TomTom Spark GPS fitness watch includes the Atmel | SMART ARM Cortex M7-based MCU and the tinyAVR44A MCU.
Segger’s SystemView: maximum insight with free real-time analysis tool
Segger’s SystemView: maximum insight with free real-time analysis tool
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Segger (Hilden, Germany) has released SystemView, a free tool enabling the visual analysis of any embedded system. SystemView gives complete insight into the behaviour of a program, with minimal side…
CXPI-compatible transceiver IC challenges LIN in near-real-time operation
CXPI-compatible transceiver IC challenges LIN in near-real-time operation
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Rohm Semiconductor has a transceiver IC compatible with the new low-speed, low-cost CXPI communication protocol for use in body control applications, including steering switch, AC, and instrument panel systems; it…
16-channel ultrasound AFEs enable efficient system designs
16-channel ultrasound AFEs enable efficient system designs
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Texas Instruments' AFE5818 and AFE5816 families are presented as the first 16-channel ultrasound analogue front ends (AFEs), that also integrate a range of features to maximise image quality and performance…
Push the UVM start button then hit the accelerator – part 1
Push the UVM start button then hit the accelerator – part 1
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So, you’re STILL not using UVM? Maybe you’ve taken a good look and decided that the Universal Verification Methodology for SystemVerilog (UVM) is not for your team. Maybe, you’ve not…
Low-cost, low-power system-on-module uses tablet SoC
Low-cost, low-power system-on-module uses tablet SoC
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With a quad-core Allwinner A31 processor, usually found in high-end tablets, the A31-µQ7 is a high-performance industrial system-on-module setting an ultra-competitive price point, starting at under £50 (~€70).
Ultra-compact CMOS endoscopy camera recognised with award
Ultra-compact CMOS endoscopy camera recognised with award
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CMOSIS, maker of advanced CMOS image sensor solutions, has received the "Deutscher Innovationspreis für Ausserklinische Intensivpflege" (German Innovation Award for Non-Clinical Intensive Care). The prestigious award recognises the significant progress…
Trace-based debug from Undo Software supports 64-bit ARM Devices
Trace-based debug from Undo Software supports 64-bit ARM Devices
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Undo's Live Recorder "software-implemented trace" debugging technology helps simplify porting code from alternative hardware architectures; Undo Software and ARM have extended their partnership to help the growing number of companies…
Free cloud-connected OS: Wind River to boost IoT progress
Free cloud-connected OS: Wind River to boost IoT progress
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Wind River has added to its offerings a comprehensive cloud suite, Wind River Helix Cloud, and free cloud-connected multi-architecture operating systems, Wind River Rocket and Wind River Pulsar Linux. WR…
Digital CMOS gas sensors for wearables & IoT
Digital CMOS gas sensors for wearables & IoT
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Cambridge CMOS Sensors' digital gas sensor, CCS811, simplifies the development process for integrating gas sensor solutions into smart phones, wearables and connected home devices…
Virtual design platform supports coding for Altera Arria 10 SoC FPGAs
Virtual design platform supports coding for Altera Arria 10 SoC FPGAs
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Mentor Graphics' Vista virtual platforms for the Arria 10 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA are fully functional simulation models of processor subsystems and peripherals offered as freely downloadable pre-built binaries.
Infrared imaging startup finds funds for product launch
Infrared imaging startup finds funds for product launch
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Irlynx SA (Meylan, France), a startup developer of infrared sensor modules for smart buildings, has raised €2 million (about $2.2 million) in Series A funding.
Will IoT make taxing the Internet inevitable?
Will IoT make taxing the Internet inevitable?
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Have we been living in a fool's paradise with regard to the Internet? Do global power considerations mean that the Internet is about to become a limited resource and much…
Digi-Key’s pushes IDT’s wireless power reference kits through hackster
Digi-Key’s pushes IDT’s wireless power reference kits through hackster
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Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Digi-Key Electronics are partnering for a new contest that seeks the most innovative use of IDT’s wireless power technology.
Microchip’s next-generation Bluetooth Low Energy product
Microchip’s next-generation Bluetooth Low Energy product
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Microchip has released a Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) range; qualified to the latest Bluetooth 4.2 standard, the IS1870 and IS1871 Bluetooth LE RF ICs, and the BM70 module, expand Microchip's…
Modular smart lighting system demonstrated
Modular smart lighting system demonstrated
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Plessey is to highlight the potential uses of its GaN on silicon MAGIC LED technology with a smart lighting product called Totem. Totem was developed in collaboration with the Manchester…
Perovskite advance promises wider spectral absorption for higher solar cell efficiency
Perovskite advance promises wider spectral absorption for higher solar cell efficiency
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A research team from Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new method to fabricate high-quality perovskite materials capable of utilizing longer-wavelength sunlight of 800 nm or…
Flexible tattoo sensors measure blood flow under the skin
Flexible tattoo sensors measure blood flow under the skin
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An international team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have unveiled an experimental sensor that clings to skin like a temporary tattoo and provides 24-hour monitoring…
Vision processing and AI improve control of drones
Vision processing and AI improve control of drones
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Chinese drone maker DJI has partnered with open source Ubuntu OS provider Canonical to release a computer embedded on a drone platform, helping developers turn their drones into intelligent, autonomous…
Give-away: 32-bit MCU board plus compiler kits
Give-away: 32-bit MCU board plus compiler kits
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This month, FTDI Chip is giving away six MCU development board packages complete with a dedicated compiler (including a full integrated development environment).
Constraint-driven analog place and route
Constraint-driven analog place and route
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Keith Sabine, product manager at EDA firm Pulsic, discusses how analog EDA continues to try and borrow techniques from its digital cousin but that analog complexity means that one size…
Seeed’s BeagleBone Green development board, in distribution
Seeed’s BeagleBone Green development board, in distribution
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Mouser Electronics has the BeagleBone Green, a Linux-based development board from BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. The BeagleBone Green updates the popular BeagleBone Black, retaining the AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor…


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