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LED based luminous ceiling simulates daylight to comfort intensive care patients
LED based luminous ceiling simulates daylight to comfort intensive care patients
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Philips has developed a media enabled LED based luminous ceiling that can simulate energizing daylight to comfort critically ill patients.
Diagnostics chip integrates configurable automotive buses and power management functions
Diagnostics chip integrates configurable automotive buses and power management functions
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Fabless analog ASIC company, JVD Inc., has started volume production of the company's automotive integrated circuit, the JV700, an ODB-II…
Feedback to users improved by haptics platform for small touchscreens
Feedback to users improved by haptics platform for small touchscreens
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From Redux Labs, the customisable Bullfinch platform mimics the sensation of real-world keys on a flat screen, imitating keyboard, double-press…
Performance of quantum dot LEDs is boosted by nanoscale engineering
Performance of quantum dot LEDs is boosted by nanoscale engineering
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The Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking to improve QD-LEDs by using a…

32-bit MCU helps wearable fitness tracker maximize battery life
32-bit MCU helps wearable fitness tracker maximize battery life
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Misfit Wearables, a designer and manufacturer of wearable computing products, has selected Silicon Labs’ EFM32 Leopard Gecko 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) as the energy-friendly controller for the Misfit Shine, which claims…
MSC offers 32-bit MCUs to enable cost-effective entry into the Internet of Things
MSC offers 32-bit MCUs to enable cost-effective entry into the Internet of Things
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MSC is offering the RX110 group of 32-bit MCUs from Renesas Electronics which deliver a combination of high-performance and ultra-low power consumption, and provide greater device scalability for cost-sensitive Internet…
Semtech adds low power devices to ultra long range transceiver platform for IoT applications
Semtech adds low power devices to ultra long range transceiver platform for IoT applications
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Semtech Corporation has introduced the SX1276/77/78 devices, which integrate Semtech’s new LoRa (long range) technology.
Weightless details roadmap for IoT devices and basestations
Weightless details roadmap for IoT devices and basestations
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The Weightless SIG has announced the roadmap for the roll-out of Weightless compatible hardware from SIG founder and Promoter Group Member Neul.
Wieghtless shows its roadmap for IoT devices and basestations
Wieghtless shows its roadmap for IoT devices and basestations
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The Weightless SIG has announced the roadmap for the roll-out of Weightless compatible hardware from SIG founder and Promoter Group Member Neul.
Toshiba steps up LED-lighting presence with 1W GaN-on-Si white LEDs
Toshiba steps up LED-lighting presence with 1W GaN-on-Si white LEDs
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Toshiba says its second generation of 1W LEDs will drive down costs for general-purpose and industrial lighting.
Cooling high-power LEDs: The four myths about active versus passive methods
Cooling high-power LEDs: The four myths about active versus passive methods
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Ed Rodriguez explains that In high-power lighting, needs are emerging for LED luminaires rated to 100, 200 or even 600 watts (over 60,000 lumens), to cover wide areas. The higher-power…
Vanderbilt University develops novel supercapacitor made out of silicon
Vanderbilt University develops novel supercapacitor made out of silicon
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A novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University has raised the possibility of creating solar cells that produce electricity around the clock and not just when the…
EU research institutes partner three SMEs to industrialize high-density 3D integrated capacitors
EU research institutes partner three SMEs to industrialize high-density 3D integrated capacitors
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CEA-Leti, Fraunhofer IPMS-CNT are collaborating with three European SMEs, IPDiA, Picosun and SENTECH Instruments in a project aimed at industrializing 3D integrated capacitors with world-record density.
XMOS uses ARM chip to create next wave in programmable system-on-chip devices
XMOS uses ARM chip to create next wave in programmable system-on-chip devices
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Multicore microcontroller designer XMOS Semiconductor has signed an agreement with Silicon Labs to use one of its ultra low power ARM Cortex M3 chips alongside an XMOS xCORE die.
VESA to define new micro-DisplayPort™connector standard
VESA to define new micro-DisplayPort™connector standard
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Responding to the growth of portable and ultra-thin computing devices, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced that it is defining a micro-DisplayPort connector standard designed to be physically…
Volvo unplugs plug-in hybrids and e-cars
Volvo unplugs plug-in hybrids and e-cars
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Electromobility still lacks of acceptance, and one major reason for this is the lack of standards for the charging plug. Now it seems like a solution becomes realistic - through…
Nokia bets on 6-inch phablets
Nokia bets on 6-inch phablets
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Forget puny displays of smartphones. Nokia is going after big screens. The Finnish company showed off Tuesday (October 22) its first tablet (10-inch screen) and two six-inch screen "phablets" at…
Nokia guns for 6-inch phablets
Nokia guns for 6-inch phablets
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Forget puny displays of smartphones. Nokia is going after big screens. The Finnish company showed off Tuesday (October 22) its first tablet (10-inch screen) and two six-inch screen "phablets" at…
Low-cost miSLIC line circuit with shared buck boost power supply target broadband gateways
Low-cost miSLIC line circuit with shared buck boost power supply target broadband gateways
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Microsemi Corporation has unveiled the company's miSLIC Series of line circuits at the Broadband World Forum tradeshow in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ARM launches its V8-R architecture for real time applications
ARM launches its V8-R architecture for real time applications
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ARM has developed a version of its V8 processor architecture to target real time and security applications, especially in automotive.
Nanodiamond-based polymer offers 25 percent conductivity performance increase
Nanodiamond-based polymer offers 25 percent conductivity performance increase
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Finland-based Carbodeon has developed a thermal filler using nanodiamonds that increases the conductivity of thermally conductive polymers by 25 percent to provide performance increases for polymers used in electronics and…
ADI opens SDR transceiver up for general sale
ADI opens SDR transceiver up for general sale
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Analog Devices has been shipping the AD9361 RF agile transceiver – which covers a carrier frequency range from 70MHz to 6GHz - for two years for application in small cell…
ARM targets automotive, industrial world with real-time optimized architecture
ARM targets automotive, industrial world with real-time optimized architecture
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ARM has developed a version of its V8 processor architecture to target real time and security applications, especially in automotive.
Managing hold up /transparency time in high reliability power supplies
Managing hold up /transparency time in high reliability power supplies
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This article examines why it pays to manage hold up /transparency time in high reliability power supplies.
Perovskite-based solar cells offers major manufacturing cost savings
Perovskite-based solar cells offers major manufacturing cost savings
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Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists has revealed a next generation solar cell, made from organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials, that is about five times cheaper than current thin-film solar cells…
Battery switch assembly offers very low resistance at high currents
Battery switch assembly offers very low resistance at high currents
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Chipmaker Infineon and PCB design and manufacturing company Schweizer Electronic AG have developed demonstrator of an electronic high-performance battery switch for automotive applications. The device shows how entire battery circuits…
4500-V IGBT gate driver supports high-power modules from major manufacturers
4500-V IGBT gate driver supports high-power modules from major manufacturers
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Amantys has launched a new Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) Gate Driver for high power modules, operating at 4500 V with current ratings from 400 A to 1200 A, designed…
Joint project research develops new type of cost-effective high efficiency converter system
Joint project research develops new type of cost-effective high efficiency converter system
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After three years German power converter manufacturer, Semikron has completed a cooperative research project with converter developer and manufacturer PCS and the TU Dresden to design of a new type…


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