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How machine-to-machine and small data will revolutionise the auto industry
How machine-to-machine and small data will revolutionise the auto industry
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The big trend on everyone’s agenda at the moment is big data, but in the world of machine-to-machine communications (M2M)…
TTP teams with Freescale for white space broadband basestation
TTP teams with Freescale for white space broadband basestation
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The Technology Partnership (TTP) in Cambridge is using Freescale Semiconductor’s RF devices and QorIQ base station-on-chip as the foundation of…
Overcoming the embedded CPU performance wall
Overcoming the embedded CPU performance wall
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Julio Diez Ruiz explains the silicon limitations to achieving frequency improvements in embedded processors and how they affect CPU performance. …
Wireless Sensor Network Challenges and Solutions
Wireless Sensor Network Challenges and Solutions
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While both low-power sensors and wireless networking are now ubiquitous, there are still relatively few examples on the market of…

Verbatim to showcase GaN LEDs, high-brightness OLEDs
Verbatim to showcase GaN LEDs, high-brightness OLEDs
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On the Euroluce trade fair in April, Verbatim will exhibit its latest developments in OLED and LED technologies. Visitors will see the OLED modules as well as GaN-based LEDs which…
Freescale re-enters the RF IC market for the Internet of Things
Freescale re-enters the RF IC market for the Internet of Things
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Freescale Semiconductor is planning to re-enter the RF chip market later this year to support new ARM-based processors with wireless networking and cellular links.
Enhanced online IGBT product selector and performance evaluator tool simplifies device optimization
Enhanced online IGBT product selector and performance evaluator tool simplifies device optimization
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International Rectifier has enchanced the company's Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) selection tool that enables design optimization in a wide range of applications including motor drives, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS),…
element14 offers new Freescale Freedom development hardware for the Kinetis family
element14 offers new Freescale Freedom development hardware for the Kinetis family
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Following the launch of the first Freescale Semiconductor Freedom development hardware for the Kinetis family in 2012, element14 is making available a new board for evaluating Kinetis KL05Z MCUs (FRDM-KL05Z).
Research project targets Ethernet as data backbone in vehicles
Research project targets Ethernet as data backbone in vehicles
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Ethernet is on the rise in the automotive world. While this networking technology currently is mainly targeted by developers of camera-based driver assistance systems, a research project of the HAW…
Soccer drives LED displays to new records
Soccer drives LED displays to new records
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Mitsubishi Electric has installed two large LED-based displays at the Saitama Stadium 2002 in the suburbs north of Tokyo. With a diagonal 25.7 metres (1011 inch), the panels are Japan’s…
Bosch, PSA Citroen develop hybrid drive with effective energy recuperation
Bosch, PSA Citroen develop hybrid drive with effective energy recuperation
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A full-hybrid powertrain concept jointly developed by automotive supplier Bosch and carmaker PSA Citroen excels through particular high fuel efficiency. It also helps to significantly reduce the CO2 emission and,…
Volvo combines cyclist detection with full auto brake
Volvo combines cyclist detection with full auto brake
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At the Geneva Motor Show, carmaker Volvo introduced an innovative electronic safety feature: An intelligent image recognition system that detects cyclists and, in the case the cyclist swerves out in…
Smart lighting system supports circadian rhythm
Smart lighting system supports circadian rhythm
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Murata has started field tests of the "Smart Hospital Lighting System", a lighting control system for next-generation hospitals that leverages wireless communication technology. The system enables implementation of circadian lighting…
Developing sensors for the global medical market
Developing sensors for the global medical market
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Many technology trends in the medical device market are global, including miniaturization, low power consumption and liquid media compatibility; however, materials compliance, product requirements, and cost issues can vary from…
GainSpan selects IAR Systems as sole supplier of tools for development of new Wi-Fi/ZigBee IP solution
GainSpan selects IAR Systems as sole supplier of tools for development of new Wi-Fi/ZigBee IP solution
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GainSpan has selected to work exclusively with tools from IAR Systems to develop the company’s new GS2000 Wi-Fi and ZigBee solution.
New IC technology boosts performance of large lithium Ion battery packs
New IC technology boosts performance of large lithium Ion battery packs
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16kW-hr battery packs made from lithium ion cells are powering electric vehicles and storing grid energy. Measurement ICs like the LTC®6804 are used to extend the life and ensure the…
Cortus teams with Dongbu HiTek on new microcontroller platform
Cortus teams with Dongbu HiTek on new microcontroller platform
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French IP provider Cortus is working with Korean foundry Dongbu HiTek to develop a design platform combining embedded flash technology with Cortus processor and peripheral IP.
Japanese researchers develop low-power amplifiers for high-spatial-resolution biomedical and environment monitoring system
Japanese researchers develop low-power amplifiers for high-spatial-resolution biomedical and environment monitoring system
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Researchers from Toyohashi Tech have developed a small-area, low-power, low-noise instrumentation amplifiers for high-spatial-resolution biomedical and environment monitoring system.
FPGA design heads into The Cloud
FPGA design heads into The Cloud
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HarnHua Ng, Plunify explains what cloud computing has to offer for the FPGA design engineer.
Lighting is on the way to digitization
Lighting is on the way to digitization
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Two major trends currently determine the technical development in the lighting markets: LEDification, the transition to LEDs from CFLs and incandescent bulbs, and Digitization - essentially providing luminaires with a…
Teardown: LED light shrinks size, cost with non-isolated driver
Teardown: LED light shrinks size, cost with non-isolated driver
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LED bulb prices are dropping. A year ago you could expect to pay $50 for a Philips dimmable 60W-replacement LED bulb, while today you can go to Best Buy and…
Broadcom joins small-cell basestation fray
Broadcom joins small-cell basestation fray
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Broadcom has recently announced its first integrated chips for cellular base stations at the Mobile World Congress, targeting the market for small cells. Chip and systems vendors are scrambling for…
ROHM develops PMIC to support Intel’s ‘Bay Trail’Atom-based platform
ROHM develops PMIC to support Intel’s ‘Bay Trail’Atom-based platform
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ROHM Co., Ltd. has developed a dedicated system power management IC (PMIC) to support Intel's latest Atom-based platform, code name 'Bay Trail'.
Z-Wave Alliance focuses on the Internet of Things at CeBIT 2013
Z-Wave Alliance focuses on the Internet of Things at CeBIT 2013
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The Z-Wave Alliance, an open consortium of vendors of wireless home control products and services, will give smart lighting and Raspberry minicomputer applications a build-up at the CeBIT IT show…
Developing and strengthening 3D IC manufacture in Europe
Developing and strengthening 3D IC manufacture in Europe
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The European 3D TSV Summit that took place at Grenoble's Minatec campus late February gathered 320 attendees from over 20 countries, a testimony of Grenoble’s high tech reputation and France’s…
High-speed measurements for electric and hybrid vehicles
High-speed measurements for electric and hybrid vehicles
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In the development of electric and hybrid vehicles, in particular, the requirements for instrumentation used to measure internal ECU signals are very high. Nonetheless, measurement data rates of up to…
French scientists use boron nitride nanotubes to channel osmotic power
French scientists use boron nitride nanotubes to channel osmotic power
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The Institut Lumière Matière in Lyon (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon), in collaboration with the Institut Néel (CNRS), has discovered how to use boron nitride nanotubes to harness energy…
Power Tip 56: Estimate PWB interconnect inductance
Power Tip 56: Estimate PWB interconnect inductance
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments examinessome simple formulas for interconnect inductance in free space and over a ground plane. We will find that the ground plane significantly reduces trace inductance…


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