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Power USB VBUS in Autos with the LT8697
Power USB VBUS in Autos with the LT8697
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USB sockets appear in an increasing number of car models as portable devices become more ubiquitous.
MCU goes SOC – Changes in Microcontrollers and Testers Equipment
MCU goes SOC – Changes in Microcontrollers and Testers Equipment
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Microcontrollers (MCUs) are all around us, whether in washing machines, car key rings, smart cards or in any control system.
Thin-film solar cell efficiency mystery is solved
Thin-film solar cell efficiency mystery is solved
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Researchers from the USA's Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Toledo and DOE’s National Renewable Energy…
Imagine a world without cords – The Wireless Power Challenge
Imagine a world without cords – The Wireless Power Challenge
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Today’s electronic devices are taking on more applications every day and are demanding an increasing amount of power and higher-power…

Dual function electrolyte promises longer life batteries
Dual function electrolyte promises longer life batteries
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A battery chemistry aimed at producing batteries that last longer than previously thought possible has been developed by researchers at the USA's Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Cloud-based NFC merges product traceability and direct marketing
Cloud-based NFC merges product traceability and direct marketing
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RFID has been around for some time in logistics and implemented as a basic-antitheft device de-activated at the cashier. The readers used to be proprietary and the chips would not…
A world without cords – The Wireless Power Challenge
A world without cords – The Wireless Power Challenge
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Today’s electronic devices are taking on more applications every day and are demanding an increasing amount of power and higher-power batteries requiring more advanced control systems. Subsequently, engineers must now…
Save power in IoT and WLAN systems
Save power in IoT and WLAN systems
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Yuji Sasaki, Engineering Manager of Silex Technology America, Inc.,considers the issues engineers face when implementing power save management for wireless LAN devices.
Cloud-based NFC brings traceability and marketing mix
Cloud-based NFC brings traceability and marketing mix
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RFID has been around for some time in logistics and implemented as a basic-antitheft device de-activated at the cashier. The readers used to be proprietary and the chips would not…
Transaction-level modeling and verification extensions for SystemC
Transaction-level modeling and verification extensions for SystemC
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Accellera Systems Initiative announced the release of two new libraries for the SystemC core language (SystemC 2.3.1) and SystemC verification (SCV 2.0).
Can wind turbines generate lightning?
Can wind turbines generate lightning?
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Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain have demonstrated the relationship between the movement of wind turbines and the generation of lightning.
Strained nanowire has tunable electroptic properties
Strained nanowire has tunable electroptic properties
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Stress in monocrystalline semiconductor nanowires can be used to tune the band gap and allow the same material to be used for solar cells, light-emitting diodes and increases the possibility…
Graphene/CNT mix produces low-cost ultracapacitors
Graphene/CNT mix produces low-cost ultracapacitors
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By mixing graphene flakes with single-walled carbon nanotubes researchers at the George Washington University's Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory have claimed to have created an ultracapacitor that is both high performance…
Display Stream Compression standard boosts display interfaces to 8K
Display Stream Compression standard boosts display interfaces to 8K
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), working in liaison with the MIPI Alliance, has unveiled the Display Stream Compression (DSC) Standard, version 1.0.
OLEDs help NASA focus space biology research
OLEDs help NASA focus space biology research
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Philips Lumiblade OLEDs have been used for the first time in space as a key component of an experiment on board NASA’s SporeSat nanosatellite which was launched this month.
Mixture of graphene/carbon nanotubes produce low-cost ultracapacitors
Mixture of graphene/carbon nanotubes produce low-cost ultracapacitors
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By mixing graphene flakes with single-walled carbon nanotubes researchers at the George Washington University's Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory have claimed to have created an ultracapacitor that is both high performance…
Get your IT infrastructure assessed for free
Get your IT infrastructure assessed for free
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A provider of data storage solutions, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has just released what used to be an in-house developed storage data assessment tool used internally to optimize customer service.
Battery management reference design needs no shunt resistor
Battery management reference design needs no shunt resistor
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A reference design board that measures current to an accuracy of ±1% by monitoring the voltage drop across a copper track on a PCB has been introduced by ams AG.
Graphene, carbon nanotube ultracapacitors could boost performance and cut costs
Graphene, carbon nanotube ultracapacitors could boost performance and cut costs
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Researchers at the George Washington University's Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory have created an ultracapacitor that is both high performance and low cost.
Amplifier design could enable mobile phone masts to cut carbon emissions
Amplifier design could enable mobile phone masts to cut carbon emissions
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The Universities of Bristol and Cardiff have designed an amplifier that works at 50 per cent efficiency compared with the 30 per cent now typically achieved, enabling mobile phone masts…
Hard wired floating point changes FPGA
Hard wired floating point changes FPGA
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Altera has developed a way to add single precision floating point processing to its FPGAs with minimal overhead, opening up a wide set of new high performance computing applications.
Li-Fi demonstration shows ability to transform internet usage
Li-Fi demonstration shows ability to transform internet usage
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Harald Haas and his team are claiming another breakthrough in Li-Fi technology by demonstrating that up to 1.1 Gbps can be transmitted using light waves from micro LEDs over a…
High-temperature plasmonics boost solar cell efficiency rates
High-temperature plasmonics boost solar cell efficiency rates
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Researchers at Purdue University are working to replace silver and gold with titanium nitride and zirconium nitride in 'plasmonic metamaterials' that operate at high temperatures and could improve solar cell…
Li-Fi reaches 1Gbps: lighting the path to a new internet model
Li-Fi reaches 1Gbps: lighting the path to a new internet model
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Harald Haas and his team are claiming another breakthrough in Li-Fi technology by demonstrating that up to 1.1 Gbps can be transmitted using light waves from micro LEDs over a…
Teardown reveals PrimeSense in Google’s Tango
Teardown reveals PrimeSense in Google’s Tango
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A deconstruction by iFixit of Google's Project Tango depth-sensing prototype Android phone has revealed the presence of the PS1200 'Capri' 3D sensor data processor from PrimeSense Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
Should the solar cell be pensioned off?
Should the solar cell be pensioned off?
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This week marks the 60th anniversary of one of the major technological landmarks in the history of the solar cell and is showing no signs of seeking early reitrement.
LED bulbs – what is a whiter shade of pale?
LED bulbs – what is a whiter shade of pale?
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Scientists from Penn State in partnership with Soraa Inc., believe that some LED bulbs whites are not 'whiter than white' and that with the switch away from incandescent and fluorescent…
Printoo: printed electronics made Arduino-compatible
Printoo: printed electronics made Arduino-compatible
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A spin-out from YDreams, Ynvisible was founded in 2010 with the goal to bring more interactivity to everyday objects and surfaces, mostly through the use of flexible and printed electronics…


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