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25 Gbit/sec optical on-board-transceiver carries up to 300 Gbit/sec data
25 Gbit/sec optical on-board-transceiver carries up to 300 Gbit/sec data
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FCI’s Leap On-Board-Transceiver (OBT) system is a one inch square, (2.5 x 2.5 cm) board mounted optical module that features…
Transphorm’s GaN power devices move to full production at Fujitsu
Transphorm’s GaN power devices move to full production at Fujitsu
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Transphorm and Fujitsu Semiconductor have announced that Fujitsu’s CMOS-compatible, 150mm wafer fab in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan, has started mass production…
Industrial communications; cellular router provides broadband wireless connectivity
Industrial communications; cellular router provides broadband wireless connectivity
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From Siemens, this integrated LTE modem includes rollback to 2G and 3G networks for reliability; it has dual SIM card…
Code configuration plug-in for 16-bit PIC development, free from Microchip
Code configuration plug-in for 16-bit PIC development, free from Microchip
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The MPLAB Code Configurator for Microchip Technology’s MPLAB X IDE speeds and simplifies development of firmware on 8- and 16-bit…

Integrating safety and security into connected medical devices
Integrating safety and security into connected medical devices
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Combining the safety requirements from different medical standards and demonstrating high levels of security is a challenge. However, built-in fault detection, control, and software separation features and advances in architecture…
“Smart-lighting” manager energy-harvests daylight, with internet connections
“Smart-lighting” manager energy-harvests daylight, with internet connections
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ams’ AS721x Autonomous Daylighting Manager is positioned as the first integrated chip-scale Internet of Things (IoT)-connected smart lighting manager. This sensor-integrated smart lighting manager solutions delivers cost-effective, IoT-connected, integrated control…
7½-digit DMM has 1 MHz sampling, plus graphical display
7½-digit DMM has 1 MHz sampling, plus graphical display
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Termed by Keithley the first “graphical sampling digital multimeter” the DMM7510 combines high accuracy, integrated data visualisation, and operation via a capacitive touch screen with an interface that is modelled…
ARM adds safety support to Cortex-R5 IP for automotive, medical and industrial markets
ARM adds safety support to Cortex-R5 IP for automotive, medical and industrial markets
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ARM has created a comprehensive safety document set for the ARM Cortex-R5 processor to assist its adoption in safety-critical applications. The Cortex-R5 is the first in a range of ARM…
Graphics & virtualisation for Intel Atom E3800 Processors, from Green Hills
Graphics & virtualisation for Intel Atom E3800 Processors, from Green Hills
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Green Hills Software’s Integrity RTOS real-time operating system and Integrity Multivisor virtualisation now support the Intel Atom processor E3800 product family.
Simplified design-in of 3D gesture recognition in embedded devices
Simplified design-in of 3D gesture recognition in embedded devices
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Microchip’s MGC3030 is the second member of the GestIC family; it offers simplified user-interface options in an SSOP28 package. Always-on gesture sensing can be added to power-constrained applications; the IC…
[Amended] Linux systems debugged in the field by embedded execution logging
[Amended] Linux systems debugged in the field by embedded execution logging
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Reversible debugging tools provider Undo Software has introduced Live Recorder, a version of its toolset that assists in debugging Linux systems as they are running, in the field or at…
Design-in puts Toshiba structured arrays in NEC microwave link
Design-in puts Toshiba structured arrays in NEC microwave link
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Toshiba has announced commercial production of its FFSATM for NEC’s iPASOLINK microwave backhaul products.
Latchup in CMOS and its prevention
Latchup in CMOS and its prevention
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Keith Sabine, product manager at EDA firm Pulsic, discusses circuit latchup and its prevention.
5 Things That Will Drive Test in 2015
5 Things That Will Drive Test in 2015
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These items stand out as the significant factors in test and measurement for 2015.
Avago demonstrates 56Gbps PAM4 SerDes
Avago demonstrates 56Gbps PAM4 SerDes
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Avago reports that its customers are designing in Avago PAM4 transceivers across copper backplane, direct-attached cables and optics, doubling system I/O bandwidth…
Apple Watch is the trigger for wireless-power-for-wearables ramp-up, says analyst
Apple Watch is the trigger for wireless-power-for-wearables ramp-up, says analyst
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Propelled by the arrival of the Apple Watch, the global market for wireless power and charging in wearable applications is set to attain a spectacular 3,000% expansion (albeit from a…
Xilinx ships largest FPGA to date; 4million logic cells
Xilinx ships largest FPGA to date; 4million logic cells
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Xilinx has announced that it has delivered a 4million-logic cell programmable device – equivalent, the company says, to over 50 million “equivalent ASIC” logic gates – which is positioned as…
Conductive paint/ink reinvented for the maker generation
Conductive paint/ink reinvented for the maker generation
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Distributor RS Components is expanding its offering with products from Bare Conductive; Electric Paint and the company’s Arduino-based Touch Board.
Atmel’s SAMA5D4 Xplained board; video decoder, security features – in distribution
Atmel’s SAMA5D4 Xplained board; video decoder, security features – in distribution
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element14 has the Atmel Xplained SAMA5D4-XULT board, which features an ARM Cortex-A5 microprocessor. This development kit allows users to evaluate, prototype and create high performance, application-specific designs.
Distributor hosts ‘Bluetooth Low Energy’ workshops across Europe
Distributor hosts ‘Bluetooth Low Energy’ workshops across Europe
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Future Electronics is holding a series of events to give designers hands-on tuition with Cypress’s PSoC 4 BLE development kit; all designers attending a seminar will receive a free Cypress…
Kits to accelerate development of Google modular smartphones
Kits to accelerate development of Google modular smartphones
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Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) and eInfochips have unveiled the ARTOS12 Development Kit at the Project Ara Module Developers Conference 2015.
Google opens the hood of its self-driving car … a little bit
Google opens the hood of its self-driving car … a little bit
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Who ever wondered how a software company could build a car - and not just a car but also a completely self-driving vehicle - got a touch of an answer…
iPhone accessory makes a thermal imaging camera – in distribution
iPhone accessory makes a thermal imaging camera – in distribution
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This thermal camera accessory from IR camera maker FLIR provides the ability to see and measure small temperature variances on an iPhone screen.
Book presents an analog wonderland
Book presents an analog wonderland
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Bill Schweber reviews the third volume of the Analog Circuit Design series, which is a collection of application notes from Linear Technology Corp.
IoT and a tale of two sensors
IoT and a tale of two sensors
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When what was complex and expensive becomes complex and low cost it proliferates -- and changes things forever.
Shape memory alloy applied to image stabilisation for smartphone cameras
Shape memory alloy applied to image stabilisation for smartphone cameras
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Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has announced that its shape memory alloy (SMA) technology used for low profile optical image stabilisation (OIS) has been designed into a smartphone.
GPGPU and OpenCL approach boosts medical imaging throughput
GPGPU and OpenCL approach boosts medical imaging throughput
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Using an AMD Embedded Radeon HD 7850 GPU to accelerate medical imaging, Analogic’s BK Ultrasound bk3000 system gains a three-fold increase in data contained within each image, together with a…
Without a trace: towards eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
Without a trace: towards eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
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Researchers at Scandinavian research organization SINTEF have made progress in developing components that dissolve in water. They are made of a combination of magnesium, silicon, or silicon with a magnesium…


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