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Charger interface IC avoids handset overheating at fast-charge rates
Charger interface IC avoids handset overheating at fast-charge rates
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Power Integrations offers a charger interface IC compatible with Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 specification; PI says its CHY103D IC optimises…
32-bit PICs for connected apps step up floating point capability
32-bit PICs for connected apps step up floating point capability
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Microchip’s PIC32MZ EF series integrates 2 MB Flash, 512 KB RAM, 18 Msample/sec 12-bit ADC, FPU, crypto engine, Hi-Speed USB,…
Debian 8 distribution for Imagination’s Creator Ci20 board
Debian 8 distribution for Imagination’s Creator Ci20 board
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Imagination Technologies has frozen a Debian 8 release candidate is for the Creator Ci20 microcomputer. Debian 8 for Ci20 is…
Pulse modulation and noise figure measurements to 60 GHz
Pulse modulation and noise figure measurements to 60 GHz
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By combining the ZVA high-end vector network analyser (VNA) with the ZVAX-TRM extension unit, users of Rohde & Schwarz instruments…

Low-power implantable accelerometer: activity monitoring/posture sensing
Low-power implantable accelerometer: activity monitoring/posture sensing
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A ‘medical-grade’ motion sensor from STMicroelectronics will enable new implantable-device designs, the company believes: as an off-the-shelf solution, the motion sensor lowers the cost and time-to-market barriers for medical-device developers.
Licensable IP DSP cores step up performance
Licensable IP DSP cores step up performance
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Cores in Synopsys’ ARC EM DSP Processor Family combine high efficiency control and signal processing for ultra low power, always-on applications; XY memory support in EM9D and EM11D delivers up…
Electric vehicles are green – under certain operational conditions
Electric vehicles are green – under certain operational conditions
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Electric vehicles are considered as “green”, somehow. But how green are they really and which positive environmental effects can be attributed to them? A study from the Karlsruher Institut für…
Accurate optical coupling analogue isolation amp includes ΔΣ ADC
Accurate optical coupling analogue isolation amp includes ΔΣ ADC
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For current sensing and voltage sensing in power converters, these photocouplers achieve high accuracy through the inclusion of a delta sigma analogue-to-digital converter (ADC). The TLP7820 and TLP7920 are analogue…
The art of design validation and verification
The art of design validation and verification
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We've all seen Russian nesting dolls, each perfectly decorated doll giving way to a smaller one inside. Every one of those little dolls, even the impossibly tiny one at the…
Evaluation boards for 5 Gbps USB 3.0-to-FIFO bridge ICs
Evaluation boards for 5 Gbps USB 3.0-to-FIFO bridge ICs
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To support design-in of its next-generation USB interfacing technology, FTDI Chip has a family of evaluation/development modules. Development with the company’s FT600/1Q USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ICs is enabled by the…
Renesas deploys Synopsys’ Design Compiler Graphical for automotive IC design
Renesas deploys Synopsys’ Design Compiler Graphical for automotive IC design
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Synopsys has disclosed that Renesas has applied Synopsys’ “Design Compiler Graphical” flow in its IC design process. In seeking improved performance, with reduced power and area, Renesas use an approach…
Dev kit with hardware-encryption gives projects secure cloud connectivity
Dev kit with hardware-encryption gives projects secure cloud connectivity
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Texas Instruments’ TM4C Crypto Connected LaunchPad development kit is aimed at design of IoT gateways and nodes, factory control and automation systems, grid infrastructure, alternative energy and industrial applications.
SoC debug tool adds deadlock detection for multicore designs
SoC debug tool adds deadlock detection for multicore designs
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Addressing, according to developers UltraSoC, “one of the trickiest problems in SoC development”, deadlock detection has been added to the capabilities of the company’s SoC analysis, debug and profiling tools.
SoC handles in-car camera video with reduced latency
SoC handles in-car camera video with reduced latency
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Renesas’ R-Car T2 SoC for vehicle camera networks enables transfer of high-resolution camera video through multiple systems with very low latency time of less than 1 msec; it is compliant…
National Instruments “NI Days” events, 2015
National Instruments “NI Days” events, 2015
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National Instruments has scheduled a number of NIDays conferences in Europe; they aim to demonstrate how LabVIEW system design software and NI modular measurement and control hardware is redefining innovation.
Video: how surround view systems work for automotive applications
Video: how surround view systems work for automotive applications
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A video from Maxim Integrated explains how surround view systems take inputs from multiple fisheye cameras to give a complete landscape view around a car. Maxim makes a quad deserialiser…
Microsemi sets up “Security Centre of Excellence” for IP, data protection
Microsemi sets up “Security Centre of Excellence” for IP, data protection
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Microsemi has brought together the expertise it has accumulated in defending systems against a variety of “cyber threats” and will offer the services of its Security Centre of Excellence to…
Battery simulator reproduces entire charge cycle
Battery simulator reproduces entire charge cycle
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The Tektronix/Keithley 2281S battery simulator/precision DC power supply can the company says, shorten design and test cycles for mobile devices; the simulator is presetned as the first to emulate battery…
Altera MAX 10 FGPA hosted on Arrow’s eval board
Altera MAX 10 FGPA hosted on Arrow’s eval board
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Distributor Arrow Electronics’ development tools gains the Arrow DECA evaluation board, featuring Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA and Enpirion power solutions. MAX 10 FPGAs are non-volatile FPGAs that integrate dual-configuration flash,…
Plug-in touchscreen makes a Raspberry Pi tablet
Plug-in touchscreen makes a Raspberry Pi tablet
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Distributor element14 has a 7-in. Touchscreen Display for the Raspberry Pi, expanding the ecosystem of accessories, to enable users to create all-in-one integrated projects such as turning their Pi into…
USB-C-connector controller, IC, from Microchip
USB-C-connector controller, IC, from Microchip
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Microchip’s UTC2000 controller enables simple and quick implementation of the emerging reversible plug connector for USB devices and USB cabling, describing it as a cost-effective and simple route to implementing…
Need HV? Tiny DC/DC converters output up to 10,000 V
Need HV? Tiny DC/DC converters output up to 10,000 V
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Housed in miniature 1.0 × 0.5 × 0.5-in. plug-in packages, unregulated DC/DC converters in Pico’s AVP/AVN series deliver output voltages of 6 kV to 10 kV at 1.25W. These devices,…
Latest in the PXIe format: high-performance multiport VNA
Latest in the PXIe format: high-performance multiport VNA
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Keysight Technologies’ M9485A is presented as the highest performance PXIe multiport vector network analyser (VNA) available; Keysight designed it for high-volume wireless component manufacturing of front-end modules, switches and filters…
Create a stack monitor in 7 easy steps
Create a stack monitor in 7 easy steps
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You can prevent stack overflow through the use of a stack monitor. Here are seven steps that developers can take to create a stack monitor and ensure the stack remains…
100V, 1A, synchronous step-down regulator: Iq of 7µA
100V, 1A, synchronous step-down regulator: Iq of 7µA
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LT8631 is a 1A, 100V-input-capable synchronous step-down switching regulator. Synchronous rectification delivers efficiency as high as 90% while Burst Mode operation keeps quiescent current under 7µA in no-load standby conditions.
Software training for new Bluetooth coders; 1-day/London/14th September
Software training for new Bluetooth coders; 1-day/London/14th September
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On 14th September 2015 the Bluetooth Innovation Training Series is being hosted in London; the training session aims to provide developers, who are new to Bluetooth technology, with in-depth training…
Distributor Arrow schedules European IoT seminar series for Q4, 2015
Distributor Arrow schedules European IoT seminar series for Q4, 2015
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Presentations in these seminars will cover all aspects of IoT from Node to Cloud, providing guidance on how to create and monetise IoT concepts. The IoT in Focus tour is…
IT security is changing: if the SIEM is dead, what’s next?
IT security is changing: if the SIEM is dead, what’s next?
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The job of securing IT assets, customer data and intellectual property has become a mission critical task at organizations around the globe due to the increasing frequency and sophistication of…


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