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Tips and tricks for driving WS2811 LED strips – Part 1: Taming the wily WS2811
Tips and tricks for driving WS2811 LED strips – Part 1: Taming the wily WS2811
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Lee Goldberg considers some tips and tricks for driving WS2811 LED strips.
Graphitic carbon electrodes promise more efficient energy storage
Graphitic carbon electrodes promise more efficient energy storage
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Lawrence Livermore researchers claim to have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that…
NI’s highest-bandwidth PXIe chassis brings Intel Xeon processor to T&M
NI’s highest-bandwidth PXIe chassis brings Intel Xeon processor to T&M
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An eight-core processor in its embedded PXI controller, and PCI Express Gen 3 technology, offer up to a doubling of…
Lower the cost of solar cells – just add water
Lower the cost of solar cells – just add water
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Researchers at Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's (OIST) Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit have discovered…

Understanding capacitors, ripple and self-heating
Understanding capacitors, ripple and self-heating
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Chris Reynolds, technical manager at AVX Corp., discusses ripple ratings – or how to cook a capacitor.
Harman: How the Connected Car shapes future infotainment systems
Harman: How the Connected Car shapes future infotainment systems
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With the Connected Car becoming reality, the infotainment landscape in the vehicles will undergo massive changes. At the recent Euroforum industry meeting on automotive electronics in Munich, Harman sketched they…
5G PPP sees 5G delivering a ‘truly networked’ society with Europe in the driving seat
5G PPP sees 5G delivering a ‘truly networked’ society with Europe in the driving seat
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Believing in much more than an evolution of mobile broadband, 5G PPP has launched its vision of a ubiquitous 5G network that can create a single digital economy and connect…
Glass coated cathode promises lithium-sulfur battery performance gains
Glass coated cathode promises lithium-sulfur battery performance gains
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Researchers in the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside have developed a cathode featuring a glass cage-like coating and graphene oxide with the aim of improving…
Stress tracker tames drivers
Stress tracker tames drivers
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Based on scientific literature, pulse rate alone doesn't give an accurate reading of a person’s stress level (you could just be jogging), but combining it with other indicators such as…
Polymer blend improves solar cell efficiency by 200 percent
Polymer blend improves solar cell efficiency by 200 percent
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A University of Cincinnati research partnership has developed a blend of polymers which could make solar cells stronger, lighter, more flexible and less expensive when compared with the current silicon…
Tower makes IR sensor for Intel RealSense
Tower makes IR sensor for Intel RealSense
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Foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd., which trades as TowerJazz, has begun mass production of a near infrared light sensor used for depth sensing by Intel within its RealSense 3D camera.
4G tactical mobile network targets public safety and government
4G tactical mobile network targets public safety and government
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Featuring a small footprint that makes it ideal for deployment in next-generation emergency service requirements in vehicles, un-manned drones or even in a back-pack, the ECX Tactical from Quortus is…
Can future solar fuel cells tap supersonic electrons?
Can future solar fuel cells tap supersonic electrons?
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Researchers Sweden's Lund University working with other institutions have tracked the rapid transit of electrons through a light-converting molecule that could prove to be a step closer to producing a…
Femtocell targets automotive connectivity
Femtocell targets automotive connectivity
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In a joint effort, carmaker BMW, communications equipment vendor Peiker Acoustic and consulting company Nash Technology have developed an in-car femtocell that connects multiple mobile terminals inside the car to…
Printed OLEDs make large advertising more communicative
Printed OLEDs make large advertising more communicative
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The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is now able to print large Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) to create patterned and flexible light-emitting surfaces on advertising displays, info signs and…
Intel selects ST micromirrors for human-machine interface
Intel selects ST micromirrors for human-machine interface
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STMicroelectronics is providing a control IC and a MEMS scanning micromirror to Intel for use in projection engine that fits into the screen of a laptop of tablet computer and…
Finely patterned OLEDs prove key to organic lasers
Finely patterned OLEDs prove key to organic lasers
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A team of researchers in California and Japan have shown that OLEDs made with finely patterned structures can produce bright, low-power light sources in a key step toward making organic…
Parrot takes instant 3D mapping to the sky
Parrot takes instant 3D mapping to the sky
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On nVidia's booth at embedded world, a robot arm was swinging a stereo camera assembly, in a drone-like fashion, demonstrating Parrot’s software capabilities to turn cheap stereovision into real-time 3D…
Femtocell improves in-car mobile connectivity
Femtocell improves in-car mobile connectivity
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In a joint effort, carmaker BMW, communications equipment vendor Peiker Acoustic and consulting company Nash Technology have developed an in-car femtocell that connects multiple mobile terminals inside the car to…
Resonant mode power implementation using digital control
Resonant mode power implementation using digital control
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Subodh Madiwale explains how the digital implementation of resonant topology using an advanced digital controller can make control, design, and optimization an easy task.
High efficiency resonant mode implementation using digital control
High efficiency resonant mode implementation using digital control
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Subodh Madiwale explains how the digital implementation of resonant topology using an advanced digital controller can make control, design, and optimization an easy task.
Graphene polymer speeds electron transport
Graphene polymer speeds electron transport
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Graphene is considered by many as the successor to silicon because its electron mobility can be over 10X that of silicon plus it solves many of the problems with scaling…
Five trends to watch for at Mobile World Congress
Five trends to watch for at Mobile World Congress
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Anything and everything in the world that demands wireless connectivity — cars, phones, homes, retail transactions, factories, buildings, wearables, public transportation systems, you name it — is descending upon the…
Semitrex’ ultimate goal: “one size fits all” power conversion
Semitrex’ ultimate goal: “one size fits all” power conversion
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After two years in stealth mode and having filed 46 patents around a capacitive voltage reduction technology dubbed muxcapacitor, Californian startup Semitrex Technologies is looking up to address a three…
OmniVision, eyeSight, push gesture towards the smartphone
OmniVision, eyeSight, push gesture towards the smartphone
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CMOS image sensor vendor OmniVision Technologies Inc. is collaborating with software company eyeSight Technologies Ltd. to create a gesture recognition module in what it claims will be the industry's smallest…
Motor drive analyser leverages 8-channel, high-definition oscilloscope
Motor drive analyser leverages 8-channel, high-definition oscilloscope
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Targeting developers of electric motor drives and related power circuitry, Teledyne LeCroy has introduced the MDA800 Series of Motor Drive Analyzers (MDAs). These instruments combine three-phase power analyser static (steady-state)…
R&S showcases 5G test set at MWC
R&S showcases 5G test set at MWC
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Can pedestrians be better protected if they are using a 5G smartphone? Can disabled persons learn to walk again with the help of robots? All these scenarios can turn into…
A simple method for determining the optimal operating point of an LED
A simple method for determining the optimal operating point of an LED
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Donald Schelle, Analog Field Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments outlines a simple method for determining the optimal operating point of an LED.


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