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Trial transmission routes 38.4 Tbps traffic over 762-km fibre path
Trial transmission routes 38.4 Tbps traffic over 762-km fibre path
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Socionext’s latest generation of ultra high-speed digital-to-analogue (DAC) and analogue-to-digital (ADC) converters, featuring sampling rates up to 92 Gsamples/sec and…
IP cuts audio codec silicon area by 40% for wireless device SoCs
IP cuts audio codec silicon area by 40% for wireless device SoCs
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Dolphin Integration’s sCODa-MT1-LR.01 is a stereo audio CODEC supporting both analogue and digital microphones. This audio IP virtual component is…
Active Texts: Adding to usability and flexibility in a Schematic Editor
Active Texts: Adding to usability and flexibility in a Schematic Editor
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Over the years, EDA vendors have attempted to allow configuring the testbench from the schematic. While doing this has become…
PIC32 Harmony software decoder framework & Microsoft WMA decoder library
PIC32 Harmony software decoder framework & Microsoft WMA decoder library
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Microchip has announced the PIC32 Harmony Software Decoder Framework and Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) Decoder Library for 32-bit PIC32…

Wafer-level packaging is not enough for future consumer proudcts, say OSATS
Wafer-level packaging is not enough for future consumer proudcts, say OSATS
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Attracting a gathering of IC packaging and semiconductor processing experts in Vila do Conde, Portugal, European's largest provider of Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test Services (OSATS) Nanium S.A. hosted this…
Freescale aims to make 32-bit MCUs “software engineer friendly”
Freescale aims to make 32-bit MCUs “software engineer friendly”
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Freescale’s S32K MCUs are presented as the first automotive microcontrollers designed for the software engineer; an automotive architecture based on ARM Cortex IP delivers software and hardware scalability for faster…
Low-power LTE 4G modem targets IoT, uses MIPS architecture
Low-power LTE 4G modem targets IoT, uses MIPS architecture
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Altair Semiconductor has designed a new family of MIPS-based chips to provide 4G connectivity to wearables and other IoT devices at minimal power consumption.
SOI chips for cars: higher performance at lower prices
SOI chips for cars: higher performance at lower prices
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X-Fab Silicon Foundries has developed a 180 nm SOI (silicon on insulator) process technology for automotive and industrial applications. 40V and 60V high-voltage devices from X-Fab’s XT018 180-nanometer SOI platform…
Arduino M0 Pro connected-device development board, in distribution
Arduino M0 Pro connected-device development board, in distribution
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For projects including “Internet of Things” applications, RS Components has a development board that builds on the Arduino Uno platform, with more processing capability from a low-power 32-bit Atmel microcontroller…
Integrated smart system for connected-device designs
Integrated smart system for connected-device designs
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Aimed at “Internet of Things” applications, and claimed as the first in its format, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced what it positions as the smallest single chip module (SCM) that will…
Plug & Play NFC package for Linux and Android device development
Plug & Play NFC package for Linux and Android device development
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NXP's PN7120 will, the company says, accelerate NFC adoption in the IoT devices. The highly integrated PN7120 helps create innovative NFC solutions and enables fast exploration of new applications and…
High-resolution resistive sensing conditioner mixes performance and precision
High-resolution resistive sensing conditioner mixes performance and precision
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TI's one-chip solution integrates 24-bit ADCs, 14-bit DAC, programmable core, power management and multiple output interfaces in a small form factor…
Gas sensing platform from imec builds ‘intuitive internet-of-things’ applications
Gas sensing platform from imec builds ‘intuitive internet-of-things’ applications
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Belgian research centre Imec and the associated Holst Centre have developed a small NO2 sensor featuring a low power consumption in the mW range. The small, low power NO2 sensors…
The Filter Wizard: On converter performance and ENOB
The Filter Wizard: On converter performance and ENOB
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Without doubt, ENOB (Effective Number Of Bits) has become a “thing” in analog-to-digital converter discourse. But I don’t like it. And I’ll tell you why. It perpetuates the myth that…
When will ZigBee RF4CE land in Europe?
When will ZigBee RF4CE land in Europe?
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"It will be just a matter of time until ZigBee RF4CE becomes the standard of choice worldwide in the Europe, Asia, the Americas and other parts of the world as…
Correlation: An overlooked oscilloscope measurement
Correlation: An overlooked oscilloscope measurement
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The correlation function is a useful signal-analysis tool that engineers often overlook. Its formidable equation, which you have probably not thought about since your undergraduate signals and systems course, is.....
MIMO over-the-air testing ready to roll
MIMO over-the-air testing ready to roll
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Mobile device users are increasingly demanding a broadband experience with faster data rates. This is driving manufacturers to develop new technology, such as multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) antenna designs, to…
The IP licensing business model: a love story
The IP licensing business model: a love story
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Some months ago my colleague Rys Sommefeldt wrote an article offering his (deeply) technical perspective on how a chip gets made, from R&D to manufacturing. While his bildungsroman production covers…
Books published; Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
Books published; Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
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Newly-published by Elsevier, “Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications: Architecture, Performance and Applications” by Carles Anton-Haro and Mischa Dohler serves as a key resource in Machine-to-Machine (M2M), set to generate a huge amount…
Try out Intersil’s latest step-down power module
Try out Intersil’s latest step-down power module
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This month, Future Electronics has 20 of Intersil’s ISL8203MEVAL2Z evaluation boards to give away to EETimes Europe's readers. Worth 95 US dollars, the board was designed to demonstrate the performance…
FPGA secure-boot procedure resists side channel attacks, says Microsemi
FPGA secure-boot procedure resists side channel attacks, says Microsemi
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Microsemi claims that its secure boot solution for its SmartFusion2 programmable devices addresses side channel analysis vulnerabilities that exist in other FPGAs requiring external configuration; recent completion of DPA testing…
Low-power, low-noise, wideband RF synthesiser
Low-power, low-noise, wideband RF synthesiser
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Texas Instruments’ LMX2571 wideband radio frequency (RF) synthesiser is presented as having the lowest-available power demand, and delivering ultra-low noise performance for widest dynamic range for low-power applications.
Microchip hosts 2-day, multi-class, embedded-control training event
Microchip hosts 2-day, multi-class, embedded-control training event
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Microchip has opened registration for its European MASTERs Conference; a Technical Training Event for Embedded-Control Engineers. The event is from 15th-17th September 2015, in Berlin; classes will be available, Microchip…
Nordic adds NFC to Bluetooth, with ARM M4f core & low power drain
Nordic adds NFC to Bluetooth, with ARM M4f core & low power drain
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Nordic Semiconductor says its ARM-based, nRF52 Series of devices “redefines single-chip Bluetooth Smart”, by combining performance and power efficiency with on-chip NFC for Touch-to-Pair and with active management of functional…
High-precision PCIe 625 Msample/sec, 16-bit arbitrary generators
High-precision PCIe 625 Msample/sec, 16-bit arbitrary generators
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Spectrum (Grosshansdorf, Germany) has added three M4i series arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) with one, two or four channels with each channel capable of outputting signals at rates of up to…
Embedded development survey reveals trends, concerns for engineers
Embedded development survey reveals trends, concerns for engineers
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Each year EDN's parent company UBM conducts a survey of embedded developers to learn about their preferences and pain points, design environment and tools, and hardware and software choices. This…
Wind River builds an “app store” supplier base around VxWorks
Wind River builds an “app store” supplier base around VxWorks
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Wind River has introduced an app store for its VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River Marketplace helps customers find and evaluate add-on solutions in order to enhance their VxWorks…
Embedded product development centres on API level, comes with all software
Embedded product development centres on API level, comes with all software
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Renesas’ Synergy Platform is, the company says, an innovative approach to accelerating development of IoT and industrial-market products; it integrates a qualified software package and an API to reduce cost…


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