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Testing of CAN, LIN and FlexRay network characteristics of control units to assure reliability of bus systems in motor vehicles
Testing of CAN, LIN and FlexRay network characteristics of control units to assure reliability of bus systems in motor vehicles
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Electronic control units (ECUs) in modern vehicles are all linked together via various communication interfaces. The information, which each ECU…
Power Tip 61: Watch the conversion ratio on boost converters
Power Tip 61: Watch the conversion ratio on boost converters
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments explains why you need to keep a watchful eye on the conversion ratio on boost…
Advanced safety features will be democratized, says TRW
Advanced safety features will be democratized, says TRW
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Automotive supplier TRW will display its most advanced active, passive and integrated safety technologies at the IAA International Motorshow in…
Continental to close gap in hybrid solutions
Continental to close gap in hybrid solutions
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Continental announced a "technology kit" that closes the gap between today's marketable hybrid systems: While Low-end systems with relatively simple…

60-V high-current step-down LED driver controller
60-V high-current step-down LED driver controller
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Although a 350 mA LED could easily earn the stamp of "high power" a few years ago, now, 5 A to 40 A LEDs and laser diodes are used in…
Fujitsu plans quad core big.LITTLE graphics chip for consumer and industrial designs
Fujitsu plans quad core big.LITTLE graphics chip for consumer and industrial designs
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Fujitsu Semiconductor has licensed ARM's big.LITTLE technology and Mali-T624 graphics processing for quad core system on chip (SoC) designs.
Cypress releases new production-ready ‘Virtual Chips’ for PSoC Creator 2.2 IDE
Cypress releases new production-ready ‘Virtual Chips’ for PSoC Creator 2.2 IDE
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Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has released new components for PSoC Creator 2.2, the integrated design environment (IDE) for Cypress’s PSoC 3, PSoC 4 and PSoC 5LP programmable system-on-chip architectures.
German researchers claim world record in silicon integrated nanophotonics
German researchers claim world record in silicon integrated nanophotonics
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Researchers of the Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications Engineering (INT) at the  and the Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS) are claiming a new world record in the energy…
Thin-film CZTSe solar cell from Solliance and imec reaches 9.7% efficiency
Thin-film CZTSe solar cell from Solliance and imec reaches 9.7% efficiency
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Imomec, imec's associated lab at the Hasselt University, and Solliance, the European R&D consortium that focuses on thin-film photovoltaic solar energy have announced a CZTSe (Cu2ZnSnSe4)-based solar cell boasting 9.7…
Startup creates a SIG to license M2M technology in the home
Startup creates a SIG to license M2M technology in the home
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UK startup Xsilon is looking to open up its machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to the industry for connecting the Internet of Things in the home.
Startup to license M2M technology in the home
Startup to license M2M technology in the home
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UK startup Xsilon is looking to open up its machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to the industry for connecting the Internet of Things in the home.
Siemens builds smart city near Vienna
Siemens builds smart city near Vienna
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Along with partners, Siemens has launched a giant Smart City project in Vienna. In the Seestadt Aspern, one of Europe's larges City development projects, the companies and research institutes involved…
Project aims to make robots more trustworthy
Project aims to make robots more trustworthy
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A £1.2m project in the UK is aiming to ensure future robotic systems can be trusted by humans.
Imec solves metallization issues in advanced interconnects for the sub-1X technology node
Imec solves metallization issues in advanced interconnects for the sub-1X technology node
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Imec announced it has developed a Manganese (Mn)-based self-formed barrier (SFB) process that significantly improves resistance capacitance (RC) performance, via resistance and reliability in advanced interconnects.
MIT Researchers Create Terahertz Graphene Chips
MIT Researchers Create Terahertz Graphene Chips
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have sandwiched high-mobility graphene sheets between two ferroelectric materials, resulting in terahertz (THz) frequency operation that can directly operate on optical signals.
Industry group aims to strengthen OLED competitiveness
Industry group aims to strengthen OLED competitiveness
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The OLYMP industrial project aims at improving the quality of Organic LEDs (OLED) to a level that they can compete against conventional LEDs. To start with, the project focuses on…
MIT researchers create terahertz graphene chips
MIT researchers create terahertz graphene chips
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have sandwiched high-mobility graphene sheets between two ferroelectric materials, resulting in terahertz (THz) frequency operation that can directly operate on optical signals.
Swiss company u-blox enables microdrone to navigates over the Alps
Swiss company u-blox enables microdrone to navigates over the Alps
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Founded in 2005, microdrones, a German manufacturer of light-weight vertical take off and landing vehicles (VTOLs), has successfully demonstrated a high-precision aerial journey over the Alps from Switzerland towards Italy…
Industry group plans to strengthen OLED competitiveness
Industry group plans to strengthen OLED competitiveness
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The OLYMP industrial project aims at improving the quality of Organic LEDs (OLED) to a level that they can compete against conventional LEDs. To start with, the project focuses on…
Robot-controlled acoustic holography helps hearing aid development
Robot-controlled acoustic holography helps hearing aid development
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A Danish developer of digital hearing aids is using automated near field acoustic holography to reduce interference and improve the feedback in its low power systems.
UK’s EPSRC opens National Centre for Power Electronics
UK’s EPSRC opens National Centre for Power Electronics
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The UK’s capacity in power electronics has received an £18 million boost from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) following the opening of the first EPSRC National Centre…
Putting CPRI and DAS together
Putting CPRI and DAS together
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One of the enduring challenges in matching up a distributed antenna system (DAS) with a mobile base station has been the need to use RF as the method of interface.
Plessey releases samples of 350-mW GaN on silicon LEDs
Plessey releases samples of 350-mW GaN on silicon LEDs
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Plessey has announced that samples of the company's PLB010350 350-mW LED product are now available.
CGC, Plastic Logic join forces for developing graphene transistors, OLED displays
CGC, Plastic Logic join forces for developing graphene transistors, OLED displays
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Cambridge University’s Graphene Centre (CGC) and Dresden-based plastic display pioneer Plastic Logic have signed a collaboration agreement, marking Plastic Logic joining the Centre to start work on a research programme…
Crane offers next-generation of Interpoint EMI filters
Crane offers next-generation of Interpoint EMI filters
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Crane Aerospace & Electronics, Power Solutions has expanded the company's list of EMI filters for immediate delivery.
Web-based seminar; the curve tracer in testing power semiconductors
Web-based seminar; the curve tracer in testing power semiconductors
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Keithley Instruments is offering a free, web-based seminar titled "Testing Modern Power Semiconductor Devices Requires a Modern Curve Tracer."…
MOST in future automotive connectivity
MOST in future automotive connectivity
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The third generation of MOST, the networking standard for automotive entertainment and information, was recently introduced to the market with MOST150. The questions that arise now are: What’s next? Where…
ISS and architectural exploration
ISS and architectural exploration
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Deepak Shankar, Founder and CEO, Mirabilis Design Inc. considers the benefits of ISS and architectural exploration.


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