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Medical devices: Where wireless charging has real impact
Medical devices: Where wireless charging has real impact
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Wireless charging of personal devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets is a hot topic. Several standards are competing to…
Spectrum monitoring RF analysers feature high sweep rates
Spectrum monitoring RF analysers feature high sweep rates
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Narda Safety Test Solutions has expanded its NRA series of compact rack-mount RF analysers with the introduction of two ‘RX’…
Moore’s Law: a mixed-signal perspective
Moore’s Law: a mixed-signal perspective
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Steve Taranovich, editor of EE Times' Planet Analog website, interviews Dave Robertson, product line director with Analog Devices Inc. and…
10 skills embedded engineers need now
10 skills embedded engineers need now
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From getting familiar with open source software to developing apps, industry professionals are urging embedded engineers to get out of…

Capture the Waveform You Want & Skip the Rest
Capture the Waveform You Want & Skip the Rest
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With these handy hints, you can use an oscilloscope to measure what you want and ignore the rest.
Segger’s SmartMSD simplifies USB file transfer
Segger’s SmartMSD simplifies USB file transfer
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SEGGER’s Smart Mass Storage Device (SmartMSD) uses the proven MSD standard to easily stream files to and from USB devices, by Drag and Drop command.
FreeRTOS is now on Cadence Tensilica processors
FreeRTOS is now on Cadence Tensilica processors
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For IoT and wearable applications combining control and DSP functions, Cadence Design Systems, now has the FreeRTOS real-time operating system available for its Tensilica processors and digital signal processors (DSPs).
EtherCAT slave controller has integrated PHYs for industrial Ethernet
EtherCAT slave controller has integrated PHYs for industrial Ethernet
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This controller chip provides system designers with an EtherCAT controller with multiple interfaces, offering flexibility in selecting a cost-effective microcontroller…
DLP chipset for automotive head-up display, with widest field of view
DLP chipset for automotive head-up display, with widest field of view
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Texas Instruments has introduced a first DLP (Digital Light Processing) chipset for automotive head-up display (HUD) applications. Combining the imaging qualities of DLP technology with automotive reliability, the chipset enables…
Impairment Emulator reproduces latency effects in 100G Ethernet networks
Impairment Emulator reproduces latency effects in 100G Ethernet networks
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This Spirent offering verifies high-speed continental and transoceanic networks carrying delay-sensitive video traffic and critical financial data; it is, the cmpany says, “like testing on a real network – but…
ARM seeks energy harvesting edge in IoT push, buys Bluetooth companies
ARM seeks energy harvesting edge in IoT push, buys Bluetooth companies
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With battery lifetimes becoming an increasing preoccupation of some of the world's largest brands including Google, Apple, Tesla and Dyson it now seems UK-based ARM is focusing on extending the…
Distributor Rutronik24 grows medium-component supply network
Distributor Rutronik24 grows medium-component supply network
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Distribution company Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH is using its Rutronik24 sales concept to focus on companies with small to medium-sized component needs. Its latest addition is a local support team…
Certified, small-form-factor Bluetooth Smart module from Cypress
Certified, small-form-factor Bluetooth Smart module from Cypress
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The EZ-BLE PRoC Module is claimed to be the only such offering that provides an end-to-end Bluetooth Low Energy solution. Based on Cypress’s PRoC BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip solution it includes…
Powerline metering certification for Atmel
Powerline metering certification for Atmel
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Atmel reports that it is first semiconductor company to achieve certification for PRIME v1.4 solutions, for high performance smart metering systems. Under its Atmel | SMART branding, the company offers…
Freescale 9-axis sensor platform shield, with sensor fusion, in distribution
Freescale 9-axis sensor platform shield, with sensor fusion, in distribution
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A sensor expansion board for accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope, the Freescale 9-axis sensor platform shield is available from distributor element 14; FRDM-STBC-AGM01 features three of the latest sensing technologies incorporated…
Bluetooth SIG promotes developer’s kit to speed IoT projects
Bluetooth SIG promotes developer’s kit to speed IoT projects
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At the Bluetooth World event, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced beta availability of its Bluetooth Developer Studio, a software-based development kit that cuts developer learning time for Bluetooth…
Seminar; Addressing SoC power challenges; UK, May 13th 2015
Seminar; Addressing SoC power challenges; UK, May 13th 2015
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Synopsys has created a seminar designed to introduce new ways for the SoC architect and the software developer to address their SoC power challenges early in the development cycle with…
LeCroy uprates fastest scopes for high-speed electrical and optical tests
LeCroy uprates fastest scopes for high-speed electrical and optical tests
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Teledyne LeCroy has added enhancements to the two highest performance oscilloscope product lines in the company’s portfolio, the 30 GHz WaveMaster 8 Zi in 2009 and the 100 GHz LabMaster…
Distribution deal for ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit, with Freescale silicon
Distribution deal for ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit, with Freescale silicon
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A pre-configured ARM mbed-enabled microcontroller development board is now available from distributor element14, hosting an ARM Cortex-M4 processor and IBM's BlueMix cloud service.
The cult of DSPism
The cult of DSPism
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Dennis Feucht discusses the cult of DSPism and some of its limitations or how and when MCUs can replace analog circuitry.
Cree application note describes large signal accuracy in RF power transistors
Cree application note describes large signal accuracy in RF power transistors
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Cree has released an application note describing the high accuracy of its large signal models for RF power transistors, which allow RF design engineers to reduce PA design iterations, design…
Force-sensing industrial control uses QTC technology for safety-oriented panels
Force-sensing industrial control uses QTC technology for safety-oriented panels
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Peratech, a designer of touch technology, has created a demonstrator that uses its standard keyboard sensor together with Peratech’s Opaque QTC force-sensing technology, which accurately measures both the amount of…
Infineon/Fraunhofer develop security for PLC-based industrial automation systems
Infineon/Fraunhofer develop security for PLC-based industrial automation systems
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Infineon Technologies and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) have developed a solution that protects PLC (programmable logic controller)-based industrial automation systems from unauthorised access and manipulation.
Evaluation board for software-configurable magnetic sensing systems
Evaluation board for software-configurable magnetic sensing systems
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Melexis has introduced an evaluation board (EVB) to support its MLX90393 programmable magnetic sensor IC, aiming to provide greater access to versatile 3D magnetometers in order to develop next generation…
Inertial unit employs Colibrys MEMS, with inbuilt Kalman filtering
Inertial unit employs Colibrys MEMS, with inbuilt Kalman filtering
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OxTS (Oxford, UK) and Colibrys (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland) have collaborated to produce the xOEMcore IMU/INS (inertial measurement unit/inertial navigation system), integrating high-grade MEMS sensors in a small board set package.
System-on-chip debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
System-on-chip debug firm appoints former PicoChip exec as CEO
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UltraSoC Technologies, a Cambridge, UK company working to commercially implement new techniques of debugging and analytical technology for multiprocessor embedded systems, has appointed Rupert Baines as CEO.
Rubidium miniature atomic clock betters basestation needs, in ¼-space
Rubidium miniature atomic clock betters basestation needs, in ¼-space
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Microsemi’s enhanced Quantum rubidium miniature atomic clock (MAC) SA.3X family exceeds, the company says, wireless LTE base station and mission-critical defence infrastructure holdover requirements…
Aluminum capacitor slideshow: Handling heat issues
Aluminum capacitor slideshow: Handling heat issues
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The lifetime of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor will be shortened as its temperature increases; your system reliability can strongly depend on keeping the heat down in capacitors.


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