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Tri-mode wireless charging platform scales over power levels
Tri-mode wireless charging platform scales over power levels
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Semtech’s TS80K is a wireless charging design platform intended to support evolving wireless charging standards, multiple system configurations for wearable,…
Wind River Linux release steps up focus on IoT designs
Wind River Linux release steps up focus on IoT designs
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Wind River Linux 8 is the latest release with increased scalability for, Wind River says, addressing the opportunities and challenges…
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Technical Program
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Technical Program
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The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) and Exhibition Europe (Munich, 11th & 12th November 2015) takes as its scope. “the…
Volkswagen has given engineering a black eye
Volkswagen has given engineering a black eye
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Bill Schweber ponders the mess Volkswagen has got themselves in and considers the risk you will not be able to…

Connected-device “platform-as-a-service” vendor adds Eu presence
Connected-device “platform-as-a-service” vendor adds Eu presence
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Ayla networks is a company that provides infrastructure and data services to manufacturers and service providers working with all classes of connected devices; in effect, the “back office” of the…
Protection Methods for Automotive Electronics Circuits
Protection Methods for Automotive Electronics Circuits
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In modern automotive designs, all on-board electronics are connected to the battery and the alternator. The alternator is the main source of electrical transients—the worst of which is load dump.
Cyber threats against cars are here to stay, experts say
Cyber threats against cars are here to stay, experts say
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The rise of the connected car definitively catapults our traditional set of wheels into the world of information technology. This arrival confronts carmakers with an unfamiliar challenge: The possibility of…
2W compute module hosts Freescale i.MX 6UltraLite ARM Cortex-A7
2W compute module hosts Freescale i.MX 6UltraLite ARM Cortex-A7
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Distributor Rutronik has the efus A7UL from F&S, based on the Freescale i.MX 6UltraLite ARM Cortex-A7 processor. The efus form factor is designed according to “EasyLayout” guidelines, making it suitable…
Cyber security specialists to offer IoT-focussed protection technology
Cyber security specialists to offer IoT-focussed protection technology
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Webroot, a company operating in intelligent cybersecurity for endpoints and collective threat intelligence, and Lynx Software Technologies, operating in the embedded safety and security software market, have entered a partnership…
Distributor adds 3D printers, scanner, to rapid prototyping line
Distributor adds 3D printers, scanner, to rapid prototyping line
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Continuing its programme of products for 3D printing and prototyping, the latest 3D printing products to be added to RS Components’ range include two new Ultimaker 2 3D printers and…
Tensilica DSP core targets 4k mobile imaging
Tensilica DSP core targets 4k mobile imaging
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From Cadence’s Tensilica IP operation, the Vision P5 digital signal processor is intended to enable 4k imaging on mobile devices, with claimed metrics of 13x increase in performance and a…
Semtech’s LoRa bound for IoT WAN deployment in France
Semtech’s LoRa bound for IoT WAN deployment in France
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Announcing an agreement for an IoT Network for smart commercial solutions using its LoRa RF technology, Semtech has disclosed its participation in a large low-power, wide-area network deployed by French…
A step towards verifiable V2X communications
A step towards verifiable V2X communications
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Rohde & Schwarz, Vector and Commsignia have demonstrate the first end-to-end tester for V2X (vehicle-to-infrastructure, ‘V2I’ plus vehicle-to-vehicle, ‘V2V’) applications.
Socionext enters production with upgrade Camera Front Engine
Socionext enters production with upgrade Camera Front Engine
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Socionext – the company formed from the specialist SoC interests of Fujitsu, has announced volume production of its MB86S29 “MH-1”, a ‘camera front engine’ specialised for Bayer data processing, that…
Cypress’ solar-powered IoT kit with BLE – in distribution
Cypress’ solar-powered IoT kit with BLE – in distribution
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Distributor Mouser Electronics has the S6SAE101A solar-powered Internet of Things (IoT) device kit from Cypress Semiconductor. The kit provides an easy-to-use platform for the development of a solar-powered IoT device…
The Filter Wizard gets optical joy on vacation
The Filter Wizard gets optical joy on vacation
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Kendall Castor-Perry goes on vacation and gets, and provides, an education on optical filtering for 3D vision systems…
IC pair regulates, charges, in Skylake portable compute products
IC pair regulates, charges, in Skylake portable compute products
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Intended primarily for “2-in-1s”, ultrabooks and tablet computers hosting Intel “Skylake”-generation CPUs, Intersil’s ISL95852 PMIC reduces board space by 50%, while its companion ISL95521 battery charger extends battery run-time.
50 GHz scope builds on Tek’s ATI sampling technology
50 GHz scope builds on Tek’s ATI sampling technology
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Tektronix has expanded its DPO70000SX ATI high performance oscilloscope family, with a 50 GHz model that it positions as suitable for datacom PAM4 (multi-level signalling) testing…
Mixed signal foundry saves Si area with scalable transistors in HV CMOS
Mixed signal foundry saves Si area with scalable transistors in HV CMOS
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Voltage scalable HV transistor devices provide significant area and performance improvements and result in more dice per wafer; the Full Service Foundry division of analogue IC/sensor house ams has added…
Programmable multi-channel transceiver for sub-GHz designs
Programmable multi-channel transceiver for sub-GHz designs
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Melexis’ MLX73290-M is a multi-channel, low power RF transceiver IC addressing the sub-GHz ISM bands from 300 to 960 MHz: it has two RF channels, each with a programmable RF…
Highest-bandwidth coherent optical receiver decodes 130 GBaud
Highest-bandwidth coherent optical receiver decodes 130 GBaud
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Teledyne LeCroy’s 70 GHz and 42 GHz IQS series coherent optical receivers are designed to work with the company’s LabMaster 10Zi-A series oscilloscopes, yielding what is positioned as the highest…
Inject harmonics, test for EMI and resonance
Inject harmonics, test for EMI and resonance
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Circuits behave differently depending on frequency and you often need to subject them a wide range of frequencies to see how they respond. For example, EMI emissions and susceptibility are…
Hybrid solar panel aims for further reduction in energy bills
Hybrid solar panel aims for further reduction in energy bills
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Scientists at Brunel University, London, have designed a hybrid roofing system which claims to be cpaable of halving energy bills in new homes.
IP compiler generates 80251 CISC microcontrollers
IP compiler generates 80251 CISC microcontrollers
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Dolphin Integration’s SmartCC80251 compiler for its 80251 microcontrollers is available to users as a free upgrade and entry to this 80251 ecosystem. Low-power MCUs and a state-of-the-art compiler toolchain with…
SMU-based charge/discharge cycling for battery characterization
SMU-based charge/discharge cycling for battery characterization
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Rechargeable batteries power a rapidly expanding range of electronic devices today, from laptops and tablets to mobile phones and wearable health-monitoring devices. When purchasing these devices, consumers typically take a…
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Preliminary Technical Program
DVCon Europe 2015 announces Preliminary Technical Program
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The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) and Exhibition Europe (Munich, 11th & 12th November 2015) takes as its scope. “the application of languages, tools and intellectual property for the design…
Infineon gains security certification for IoT apps, with OPTIGA product
Infineon gains security certification for IoT apps, with OPTIGA product
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Infineon Technologies has announced that its OPTIGA TPM (Trusted Platform Module), based on the TPM 2.0 standard, is the first such device to comply with internationally recognised computer security requirements,…
Simulate real-time systems behaviour – at the requirements level
Simulate real-time systems behaviour – at the requirements level
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Stimulus, from Argosim, is a software tool for simulating and validating systems descriptions at the requirements stage, allowing them to be expressed in a form close to natural language, that…


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