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Overcoming disorientation: Practical ways to assemble MEMS inertial sensors
Overcoming disorientation: Practical ways to assemble MEMS inertial sensors
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In this article we describe how MEMS inertial sensors, e.g., gyroscopes and accelerometers, can help someone or something to overcome…
“Desktop PCB factory” turns a design into a working circuit in 30 minutes
“Desktop PCB factory” turns a design into a working circuit in 30 minutes
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What would you do if you could turn the schematic you sketched on the back of a napkin during your…
FAA raises more safety fears over lithium batteries in the skies
FAA raises more safety fears over lithium batteries in the skies
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New research by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sparked fears that lithium batteries can explode and burn even…
MEMS-resonator based Bluechiip/STMicroelectronics tracking tag hits volume production
MEMS-resonator based Bluechiip/STMicroelectronics tracking tag hits volume production
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Australian technology company, Bluechiip Limited and STMicroelectronics, have announced high-volume production for their jointly developed, MEMS-based tracking tags with the…

The Filter Wizard: Just add a transistor or clipping me softly
The Filter Wizard: Just add a transistor or clipping me softly
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Kendall Castor-Perry of Cypress Semiconductor, otherwise known as The Filter Wizard, looks at a minimal component method of mitigating noise in an oversampled audio system.
Transformer design: which safety standards should you apply?
Transformer design: which safety standards should you apply?
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When designing an offline flyback power supply, integrating the IC with the other components can be a daunting task. Not knowing the safety standards can lead to unwanted surprises of…
Signal generation for Wi-SUN and LTE/LTE-Advanced
Signal generation for Wi-SUN and LTE/LTE-Advanced
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Keysight Technologies – formerly Agilent – has announced two additions to its Signal Studio software suite of signal creation tools; signal generation software for the IEEE 802.15.4g-based Wi-SUN standard; and…
Dual-power-MOSFET package cuts losses, improves thermals
Dual-power-MOSFET package cuts losses, improves thermals
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International Rectifier’s power block family of devices now includes the IRFHE4250D FastIRFET dual power MOSFET; it comprises the control and synchronous FETs for a synchronous buck converter in a single…
A new breed of analog design tools
A new breed of analog design tools
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Erin Mannas, a marketing manager at Maxim Integrated Products Inc. looks at design tools for multi-rail, multi-load, multi-chip power systems.
Cypress Semi company sampling first DDR4 NVDIMM: Flash-backed DRAM
Cypress Semi company sampling first DDR4 NVDIMM: Flash-backed DRAM
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AgigA Tech, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor, and a provider of high-speed, high-density, and battery-free nonvolatile memory solutions, today announced that it is now sampling the first DDR4 Nonvolatile DIMM…
Design win; Bluetooth Smart in a hearing aid receives stereo audio direct from iOS devices
Design win; Bluetooth Smart in a hearing aid receives stereo audio direct from iOS devices
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Using Bluetooth Smart wireless silicon from Nordic Semiconductor, the ReSound LiNX from Danish hearing aid giant, GN ReSound, allows users to customise and fine-tune it through a dedicated app for…
App Note/Tutorial series; Managing Noise in the Signal Chain
App Note/Tutorial series; Managing Noise in the Signal Chain
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Maxim Integrated has published as an application note, an article series based on one that first appeared at EDN in 2013; Managing Noise in the Signal Chain, Part 1: Annoying…
Arduino libraries & software tools expand FTDI’s EVE HMI offering
Arduino libraries & software tools expand FTDI’s EVE HMI offering
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To provide further assistance to engineers using its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) technology, FTDI Chip can now supply a comprehensive suite of additional support facilities. These are designed to be…
8-channel, 250-MHz scope features FPGA signal processing and 14-bit resolution
8-channel, 250-MHz scope features FPGA signal processing and 14-bit resolution
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A PXIe-format oscilloscope is one of a series of software-designed instruments announced by National Instruments; following on from the company's introduction of the vector signal transceiver, these add programmable signal…
Semtech’s LoRa long-range low-power radio to be used by Microchip
Semtech’s LoRa long-range low-power radio to be used by Microchip
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Semtech has announced that Microchip Technology is to adopt Semtech’s long-range LoRa RF technology. Microchip is developing LoRa technology-based solutions that target Internet-of-things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M), metering, security, and industrial-automation…
Synchronised RF transceiver, software-defined-radio rapid prototyping kit
Synchronised RF transceiver, software-defined-radio rapid prototyping kit
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Analog Devices’ dual AD9361 RF Transceiver ICs is at the heart of an SDR design resource for multi-channel synchronisation and system simulation, alongside Xilinx all-programmable silicon.
Design software release for Altera’s forthcoming, 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs/SoCs
Design software release for Altera’s forthcoming, 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs/SoCs
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Altera's Stratix 10 design software allows prospective users to begin designs ahead of silicon availabilty (expected next year): the software has a feature termed Fast Forward Compilation that allows greater…
EDA software delivers power integrity analysis for IC designs
EDA software delivers power integrity analysis for IC designs
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Cadence's Voltus-Fi Custom power integrity solution yields foundry-certified SPICE-level accuracy for transistor-level power signoff, with highest EMIR(see below) accuracy, enabled by Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator SPICE simulation. The tool produces,…
UML and PICs – textbooks cover high-end, and detail of embedded design
UML and PICs – textbooks cover high-end, and detail of embedded design
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Publisher Elsevier has two new book titles that address opposite ends of the embedded design space; the first is by noted embedded-software methodologist and contributor to the UML and SysML…
MEMS production will follow the path carved out by logic, says analyst’s report
MEMS production will follow the path carved out by logic, says analyst’s report
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There were those that said history would not repeat itself. But evidence continues to accumulate that the MEMS sector will follow a similar path to CMOS logic, according to industry…
Agilent’s new identity is up-and-running; Keysight goes live
Agilent’s new identity is up-and-running; Keysight goes live
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Keysight Technologies has formally announced that the electronic measurement business of Agilent Technologies has begun operating under the Keysight name.
TI adds to LineStream-enabled portfolio of “instant design” motion control solutions
TI adds to LineStream-enabled portfolio of “instant design” motion control solutions
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LineStream Technologies is supporting the latest Texas Instruments microcontrollers (MCUs) with InstaSPIN-MOTION advanced motion control technologies.
Distributor opens dedicated website for communications applications
Distributor opens dedicated website for communications applications
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Mouser Electronics has added a Communications Application Site on Mouser.com, that includes Optical Line Card, Optical Module and IP Phone subsets, each with detailed block diagrams and easily accessible product…
Spray-painted solar cells could change photovoltaic economics
Spray-painted solar cells could change photovoltaic economics
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A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield (UK) is the first to fabricate perovskite solar cells using a spray-painting process – a discovery that could help cut the…
MEMS to follow in the footsteps of logic
MEMS to follow in the footsteps of logic
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There were those that said history would not repeat itself. But evidence continues to accumulate that the MEMS sector will follow a similar path to CMOS logic.
MEMS imitates logic
MEMS imitates logic
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There were those that said history would not repeat itself. But evidence continues to accumulate that the MEMS sector will follow a similar path to CMOS logic.
Webinars to cover “Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Software”
Webinars to cover “Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Software”
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TVS (Test and Verification Solutions Ltd) , vendor of software test and hardware verification solutions, has announced a series of training events on Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems Software.
Microchip’s Bluetooth Smart module uses CSR silicon, simplifies product development
Microchip’s Bluetooth Smart module uses CSR silicon, simplifies product development
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Microchip Technology's Bluetooth Smart module is based on the CSR1012 chip. The BLE RN4020 module is a complete turnkey solution, which takes CSR's Bluetooth Smart ICs to a wider range…


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