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Renesas’ latest generation of microcontroller chips reduces clock power by 30 percent
Renesas’ latest generation of microcontroller chips reduces clock power by 30 percent
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Renesas Electronics Corporation has improved power, area and productivity by using Cadence Encounter digital technology to tape out its new…
Renesas reduces clock power by 30 percent for its new generation of microcontroller chips
Renesas reduces clock power by 30 percent for its new generation of microcontroller chips
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Renesas Electronics Corporation has improved power, area and productivity by using Cadence Encounter digital technology to tape out its new…
Power line communications for smart meter networks
Power line communications for smart meter networks
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Power Line Communications has evolved into a critical energy control networking technology for the Smart Grid and consequently for Smart…
Electronics architecture for electric power steering systems
Electronics architecture for electric power steering systems
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Functional safety systems, such as steering and braking, provide particular challenges for electronics platform designers. Demand for added functions, compliance…

Technology platform enables next-gen digital car radios
Technology platform enables next-gen digital car radios
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With digital car radio systems already being state of the art in some geographies while in other regions AM is still the predominant technology, a common technology for a continent-spanning…
Uniform LED solder pad design enhances flexibility, simplifies logistics
Uniform LED solder pad design enhances flexibility, simplifies logistics
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Not all LEDs are created equal. This is evidenced not only by the performance data and the dimensions but also by the solder pads and the processing options. Osram Opto…
Startup launches e-paper for signage applications
Startup launches e-paper for signage applications
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Altierre Corp., has debuted a new e-paper for signage applications, offering customers the opportunity to take advantage of wireless updates using Altierre's E-Paper digital display technology for shelf labels, price…
Micron claims first high-volume production of 45-nm PCM
Micron claims first high-volume production of 45-nm PCM
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Claiming to offer the first phase change memory (PCM) in high-volume production, U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology has announced the availability of a 45-nm multi-chip module for mobile devices…
40G passive optical networks take shape
40G passive optical networks take shape
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The Full Service Access Network, an alliance of about 85 telecom providers and their vendors, picked a technical proposal for 40 Gbit/second passive optical networks. The group is hammering out…
Altium Designer makes ultra-high-performance design move faster at Spectrum Integrity
Altium Designer makes ultra-high-performance design move faster at Spectrum Integrity
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Spectrum Integrity designs ultra-high-speed digital, RF, and microwave PCBs which, at 20 to 110 GHz and beyond, are among the most challenging applications in industry. Its customer design challenges require…
Living in an intelligent home
Living in an intelligent home
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Imagine having the power to create the perfect lighting ambience at home with just one click of a button; picture having the power to adjust your window shades with only…
Ultra-low power radio drives continuous medical monitoring with low-cost batteries
Ultra-low power radio drives continuous medical monitoring with low-cost batteries
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The advent of wireless personal area networks (WPANs) and wireless body area networks (WBANs) has created the need for sensing and monitoring solutions that can support continuous data streaming with…
Power Tip 49: Avoid these common multi-layer ceramic capacitor pitfalls
Power Tip 49: Avoid these common multi-layer ceramic capacitor pitfalls
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Robert Kollman, Texas Instruments focuses on avoiding common multi-layer ceramic capacitor pitfalls.
Next-generation wireless mouse applies 2.4-GHz radio-on-a-chip to enable three-year battery life performance
Next-generation wireless mouse applies 2.4-GHz radio-on-a-chip to enable three-year battery life performance
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BORND, a leading PC peripheral manufacturer, has selected Cypress' 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB-NL radio-on-a-chip for its E220 next-generation wireless mouse. WirelessUSB-NL's low power consumption enables two AA batteries to power the E220…
Research project gets granular on entire power electronics value chain
Research project gets granular on entire power electronics value chain
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Aiming at fields in LED lighting and electric drives including e-mobility, the research project ProPower takes on the factors that prevent further miniaturization of power electronics. In particular, it focuses…
New standard practice for CANopen-based operator sub-systems
New standard practice for CANopen-based operator sub-systems
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CiA (CAN in Automation) has released version 1.0 of the CiA 852 CANopen recommended practice for operator environment sub-systems.
ADC Guide, Part 7: ADC reference basics pt. 1
ADC Guide, Part 7: ADC reference basics pt. 1
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Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are one of the most commonly used blocks in embedded systems. Applications of ADCs include current sensing, motor control, temperature sensing and a myriad of…
Spintronic OLED promises brighter displays
Spintronic OLED promises brighter displays
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University of Utah physicists invented a “spintronic” organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs currently used in…
Researchers develop ultra low cost 3D gaze estimation
Researchers develop ultra low cost 3D gaze estimation
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Reseachers at Imperial College, London, have developed a system for controlling computers with gaze detection that costs just €50.
Take advantage of new HMI tools for embedded graphics design
Take advantage of new HMI tools for embedded graphics design
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In this Product How-to article, Waquar Saleem of Fujitsu describes how the use of the company's CGI Studio tool suite can be used to speed up the design of display-enabled…
Innovative LED geometry could increase light output by factor of ten
Innovative LED geometry could increase light output by factor of ten
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New three-dimensional assembly of LEDs could dramatically multiply the light output compared to today's planar devices, European scientists hope. The EU research project GECCO aims at vertically oriented LEDs with…
Automatic post-crash braking technology reduces risk of secondary accidents
Automatic post-crash braking technology reduces risk of secondary accidents
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About a quarter of all passenger car accidents involving personal injuries in Germany are attributable to multiple accidents. An initial rear-end collision or a collision with a crash barrier, for…
Wireless smart packaging based on Thin Film printed electronics
Wireless smart packaging based on Thin Film printed electronics
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Bemis Company Inc., (Neenah, Wisconsin), a producer of films and packaging for the food and healthcare industries, is working with printed electronics pioneer Thin Film Electronics ASA (Oslo, Norway) to…
MIT develops tri-source energy harvest control IC
MIT develops tri-source energy harvest control IC
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the control circuitry for an energy harvesting platform that can work with natural light, heat and vibrations.
Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing
Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing
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Thanks to parallelism and technology scaling, exascale computing will become a reality before the decade is out, but it won't live up to its full potential unless fundamental power consumption…
Thin Film printed electronics targets smart packaging
Thin Film printed electronics targets smart packaging
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Bemis Company Inc., (Neenah, Wisconsin), a producer of films and packaging for the food and healthcare industries, is working with printed electronics pioneer Thin Film Electronics ASA (Oslo, Norway) to…
French Post keen to run fuel cell vehicles
French Post keen to run fuel cell vehicles
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A consortium of nine European companies and institutes has started developing a hydrogen-driven vehicle to be used by the French Post. The activity is part of the European MobyPost research…
Bridging the gap between ESL and RTL by linking simulation environments
Bridging the gap between ESL and RTL by linking simulation environments
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Aldec and Agilent Technologies are aiming to bridge the gap between high level language design and implementation by linking their simulation environments.


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