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The car’s the star…
The car’s the star…
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Group Engineering Director at Jaguar Land Rover, Wolfgang Ziebart discusses the impact of the fast-moving world of electronics on the…
How to design 32+ Gb/sec on a regular PCB
How to design 32+ Gb/sec on a regular PCB
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A new training course, to be held for the first time at the annual SI Week in Sweden on 18-22…
Low-power CMOS gas sensors, in distribution
Low-power CMOS gas sensors, in distribution
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Cambridge CMOS Sensors’ devices are available from distributor Future Electronics; the devices combine CMOS and MEMS semiconductor technology in a…
Wafer-level packages eliminate “under-bump metallisation” for under 0.5 mm profile
Wafer-level packages eliminate “under-bump metallisation” for under 0.5 mm profile
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Altera and TSMC, for the former’s MAX 10 FPGA products, are extending their collaboration on embedded flash technology at 55…

Efficiency clarifications
Efficiency clarifications
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There is some debate as to who originally invented the incandescent light bulb. Some say Thomas Edison whilst others say Sir Joseph Swan.
The Filter Wizard: on ADC input resistance and sampling
The Filter Wizard: on ADC input resistance and sampling
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Kendall Castor-Perry of Cypress Semiconductor, otherwise known as The Filter Wizard, shows how the input resistance of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) depends on the architecture and how to derive a…
Wireless M-Bus platform targets the European smart meter market
Wireless M-Bus platform targets the European smart meter market
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Comprising a wireless M-Bus stack, starter kits, and a set of wireless MCU, transceiver and 32-bit MCU options, the first complete Wireless M-Bus platform from Silicon Labs is designed to…
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs for high-speed signal processing
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs for high-speed signal processing
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Microsemi’s RTG4 series is added to the company’s RT (radiaiton-tolerant) FPGAs, providing 150 k logic elements and 300 MHz performance.
“Ideal chip for wearables” claims Dialog, for Bluetooth Smart IC
“Ideal chip for wearables” claims Dialog, for Bluetooth Smart IC
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Dialog Semiconductor has designed what it terms the first Bluetooth Smart “Wearable-on-Chip” Wearables is the fastest-growing sector of the Bluetooth Smart market, the company says, and the configuration of the…
Jobs, change and taxes
Jobs, change and taxes
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It's the end of the first quarter of 2015 and of the UK tax year. So how are we doing? We're doing pretty well, at least in northern Europe.
Is first-pass success possible for silicon IP?
Is first-pass success possible for silicon IP?
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Brandt Braswell, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Freescale Semiconductor, provides tips to help turn out an IP core that is "right" the first time it appears in…
April, 2015 Forum will cover integration of AUTOSAR within MOST networks
April, 2015 Forum will cover integration of AUTOSAR within MOST networks
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The MOST Cooperation – the standardisation organisation for the automotive multimedia network technology Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) - will present an implementation of MOST within the AUTOSAR framework at…
GIZMO Explorer experiment/prototype board, in distribution
GIZMO Explorer experiment/prototype board, in distribution
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Farnell element14 has the GIZMO Explorer Board, a companion board for the GIZMO 2 platform from Gizmosphere. The board offers features and peripherals that are suitable for use in motor…
IP to build high-performance embedded vision processor, from Synopsys
IP to build high-performance embedded vision processor, from Synopsys
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The DesignWare EV processor family delivers, its writers assert, faster object detection with significantly lower power consumption for embedded vision applications such as video surveillance, gesture recognition and object detection.
Atmel adds ARM Cortex-M based MCU at 35µA/MHz power usage
Atmel adds ARM Cortex-M based MCU at 35µA/MHz power usage
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Staking a claim for the lowest power microcontroller based on the ARM Cortex-M core series, the Atmel | SMART SAM L Family uses one-third the power of alternative offerings and…
Fastest 8051 IP core runs at 29x original 80C51 performance
Fastest 8051 IP core runs at 29x original 80C51 performance
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Polish IP company Digital Core Design’s DQ8051 IP, for FPGA or ASIC implementation, is an extremely-fast implementation of the 8051 MCU core that has a Dhrystone 2.1 performance rating of…
18V multi-channel synchronous buck converter with PMBus interface
18V multi-channel synchronous buck converter with PMBus interface
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From Texas Instruments, this highly-integrated DC/DC converter for space-constrained automotive and communication applications features up to 95% efficiency…
Imec and sureCore to co-operate on 28nm SRAM
Imec and sureCore to co-operate on 28nm SRAM
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sureCore announced it is licensing a set of SRAM design IP from nanoelectronics R&D center imec to expand its IP portfolio.
USB 3.0 – a key-point summary
USB 3.0 – a key-point summary
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In the last 14 years, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the standard interface to connect devices to a computer. Whether it’s an external hard drive, a camera, the…
Synchronous step-down LED driver delivers up to 40A pulsed
Synchronous step-down LED driver delivers up to 40A pulsed
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LT3744 is a synchronous step-down DC/DC converter designed to deliver constant current to drive high current LEDs. Its 3.3V to 36V input voltage range suits it for applications including industrial,…
Pan-European Project will assist designers of “Cyber-physical Systems”
Pan-European Project will assist designers of “Cyber-physical Systems”
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Aimed at assisting companies to develop innovative products for new connected-device markets, a consortium of 15 companies and research institutions from across Europe aims to create a “network for one-stop-shop…
Never lose track of things
Never lose track of things
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This month, DecaWave is offering EETimes Europe's readers the chance to win two TREK1000 kits to evaluate its Ultra-Wideband (UWB) indoor location and communication DW1000 chip in different real-time location…
CE marking misconceptions
CE marking misconceptions
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Products that fall under a CE marking Directive cannot be imported into the EU unless they show the CE marking, which is simply a manufacturer's self-declaration that the product complies…
Big data sets drones to fly
Big data sets drones to fly
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For the last seven years, visiting professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Dr. Tom Snitch has been working on probabilistic spatio-temporal models using as many…
EDA tool automates exploration & design of application-specific instruction sets
EDA tool automates exploration & design of application-specific instruction sets
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Synopsys’ ASIP Designer tool speeds development of application specific instruction set processors by a claimed factor of five. Automatic generation of a software development kit in parallel with the hardware…
Fraunhofer launches test centre for high-voltage batteries
Fraunhofer launches test centre for high-voltage batteries
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To foster electromobility, research institute Fraunhofer LBF (Darmstadt, Germany) has opened the centre for system reliability in electromobility, abbreviated ZSZ-e. The centre is dedicated to developing testing procedures and guidelines…
FTDI Chip adds graphic toolchain to its packaged-HMI offering
FTDI Chip adds graphic toolchain to its packaged-HMI offering
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A widget-based development tool assists user-interface designer professionals to create their own on-scrren interfaces without any need for detailed knowledge of the display list in FTDI Chip’s Embedded Video Engine…
$10k-value in components offered in Digi-Key/Silicon Labs IoT contest
$10k-value in components offered in Digi-Key/Silicon Labs IoT contest
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Winners in an Internet-of-Things-themed design contest will receive $10,000 in semiconductor components to help bring their IoT ideas to product reality…


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