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Barcode emulation with touchless gesture detection, e-commerce features in optical sensors
Barcode emulation with touchless gesture detection, e-commerce features in optical sensors
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TMG399x intelligent sensor modules from ams integrate a flexible implementation of touchless user interface and display management features for smartphones,…
Xilinx wraps FPGAs into programmer-friendly reconfigurable-computing environment
Xilinx wraps FPGAs into programmer-friendly reconfigurable-computing environment
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Xilinx chose Super Computing 2014 to unveil its SDAccel development environment for OpenCL, C, and C++. The new environment will…
MOST150 enables streaming bandwidth increase in the MOST Multiport architecture
MOST150 enables streaming bandwidth increase in the MOST Multiport architecture
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The MOST Cooperation (MOSTCO), the standardisation organisation for the automotive multimedia network Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) has released MOST150…
Magnetic rotary sensors bringing in the harvest
Magnetic rotary sensors bringing in the harvest
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The demands placed on sensor technology are ever increasing - not only for industrial automation, but also for mobile applications,…

Virtual car key, Lidar sensors and more: Valeo flexes its muscles
Virtual car key, Lidar sensors and more: Valeo flexes its muscles
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The French automotive supplier Valeo S.A. does not make it to the headlines very frequently. Typically, the company prefers to strengthen its customer relationships work far from the glare of…
Power Integrations’ InnoSwitch cuts optocouplers from switching supply circuit
Power Integrations’ InnoSwitch cuts optocouplers from switching supply circuit
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Power Integrations has introduced several generations of off-line switching power supply Ics;the latest, InnoSwitch, returns to deriving feedback information to control output regulation direct from the output, but feeds that…
Inertial Measurement Unit has 9-axis measurement, under 1mA current
Inertial Measurement Unit has 9-axis measurement, under 1mA current
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Bosch Sensortec‘s BMI160 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrates a 16-bit 3-axis, low-g accelerometer and an ultra-low power 3-axis gyroscope into a single package. It has been designed specifically for high…
Reinforced isolation meets highest industrial performance
Reinforced isolation meets highest industrial performance
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Texas Instruments has introduced data converter and digital isolation device families that enable high levels of reinforced isolation ratings along with precision performance for high-voltage applications. TI has used on-chip,…
Analog/Xilinx rapid prototyping kit supports wide band signal processing development
Analog/Xilinx rapid prototyping kit supports wide band signal processing development
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Analog Devices has introduced a rapid prototyping kit today to support design of wide-dynamic-range GSPS data converter-to-FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays) connectivity.
Freescale sets up Thread beta development program for IoT product programmes
Freescale sets up Thread beta development program for IoT product programmes
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Thread early adopters gain a head start, Freescale says, in developing connected products for the home, leveraging the power, size, and performance advantages of Kinetis W series wireless MCUs…
FTDI Chip USB 3.0 interface IC retains ease-of-use features
FTDI Chip USB 3.0 interface IC retains ease-of-use features
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FT600Q and FT601Q are FTDI Chip's first generation USB 3.0 products that function as SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to FIFO bridges, providing data bursting rates of up to 3.2 Gbps.
Scalable PowerVR Series7 GPUs target applications from wearables to servers
Scalable PowerVR Series7 GPUs target applications from wearables to servers
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Silicon IP provider Imagination Technologies has announced the PowerVR Series7, the latest generation of the PowerVR Rogue GPU architecture and an entire line-up of GPUs which scale from 16 to…
Bluetooth Smart platform from CSR focusses on the connected car
Bluetooth Smart platform from CSR focusses on the connected car
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CSR's CSR1010 auto is the first AEC-Q100 Grade 2 Bluetooth Smart chipset for automotive applications qualified for mass production. The solution equips automotive manufacturers with the tools to add new…
Raspberry Pi Model A+; latest design for embedding – in distribution
Raspberry Pi Model A+; latest design for embedding – in distribution
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With a smaller, lower-power board and HAT-compatible 40-pin GPIO as featured on Model B+, this board is more expandable, more embeddable and more mobile…
“Lark” development board based on Altera’s Cyclone V SoC
“Lark” development board based on Altera’s Cyclone V SoC
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Distributor Farnell element14 has announced the Lark Board, a high-performance development board based on Altera's Cyclone V SoC and intended for the development of high-volume applications including automotive, medical equipment,…
Custom instruction set EDA tool builds high performance image processing DSP
Custom instruction set EDA tool builds high performance image processing DSP
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Design support; Kyocera Document Solutions has acknowledged its application of Synopsys' application specific instruction set processor tool to accelerate design of of an image-processing DSP, which it estimates saved around…
Why HTTP won’t work for IoT
Why HTTP won’t work for IoT
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Are you trying to fit devices into the Internet? If so, HTTP isn’t going to work. There are much better options. In this short article I will introduce how protocols…
IoT poses new challenges to test service providers
IoT poses new challenges to test service providers
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One of the most significant aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the ubiquity of sensors and intelligent nodes. The proliferation of IoT related technologies and applications will confront…
Mouser’s free software tool gets online support site
Mouser’s free software tool gets online support site
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Distributor Mouser Electronics, supporting its recent release of the (National-Instruments-derived) MultiSIM BLUE software package, now has a site with documentation, downloads, video tutorials and user forum to get engineer’s designs…
2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo modules for industrial applications
2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo modules for industrial applications
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Texas Instruments’ WiLink 8 family is intended to make development easier and faster with pre-certified modules and a complete software offering…
16-bit, high-resolution oscilloscopes from Rohde & Schwarz
16-bit, high-resolution oscilloscopes from Rohde & Schwarz
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A 16-bit, high definition (HD) mode increases the vertical resolution of the R&S RTO and R&S RTE oscilloscopes to up to 16 bits, for waveforms are sharper and show signal…
Consumers have a say at Cartes
Consumers have a say at Cartes
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This year, the CARTES Secure Connexions exhibition was hosting a Start-up Challenge, offering new players to pitch their business cases and product ideas, with a 10,000 euros check for the…
Software has the last word for PIN entry
Software has the last word for PIN entry
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Taking place in Paris this week, the CARTES Secure Connexions exhibition has had its fair share of hardware exhibitors, but authentication is at the core of every transaction and software…
Micro-mirror array chipsets for 3D printing, machine vision & lithography
Micro-mirror array chipsets for 3D printing, machine vision & lithography
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Two added chipsets in TI’s DLP (digital light processing) series offer up to 4 million high-speed pixels to allow designers to scan more, design brighter and build bigger 3D printing,…
Biology, deceit & security in the Internet of Things
Biology, deceit & security in the Internet of Things
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Biology-inspired and deceit-based strategies offer new ways to think about defense against Internet of Things (IoT) "pathogens" at a system-level.
Instruction smart trace on 8051-derivative cores – smart & non-intrusive
Instruction smart trace on 8051-derivative cores – smart & non-intrusive
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Polish silicon IP company Digital Core Design has enhanced its 8051 portfolio with the functionality of an Instruction Smart Trace. Starting from the most popular DP8051, through the DP80390, to…
What is the Intel Edison for?
What is the Intel Edison for?
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Intel have released the long-awaited Edison. Slated as a powerful microcontroller the size of an SD card, Intel's answer to the Arduino, the Edison was built to change the world…
Tek’s compact, USB spectrum analyser spans 6GHz for under €3k
Tek’s compact, USB spectrum analyser spans 6GHz for under €3k
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The RSA306 spectrum analyser from Tektronix marks a departure for the company; it has packaged a 6.2-GHz spectrum analyser in a “screenless” handheld module that is PC hosted, connected and…


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