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New seminar series focuses on entry-level FPGA design
New seminar series focuses on entry-level FPGA design
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MSC and eVision Systems are jointly organizing one-day seminars for easy entry into the FPGA design with VHDL using the…
eoSemi aims big with quartz crystal replacement
eoSemi aims big with quartz crystal replacement
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UK startup eoSemi is aiming to take a significant share of the market for quartz crystals in high volume applications…
Stop-start supercapacitor module enables longer battery life, smaller batteries
Stop-start supercapacitor module enables longer battery life, smaller batteries
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CAP-XX Limited has developed a supercapacitor module which supplies the cranking current to start the engine in Stop-Start vehicles (also…
All-CMOS silicon oscillator technology now shipping
All-CMOS silicon oscillator technology now shipping
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eoSemi has started to ship pre-commercial versions of its first all-CMOS silicon oscillators to key strategic customers and partners. eoSemi's…

ISO 26262 cuts electronics complexity risks: Pt. 2- Design for robustness
ISO 26262 cuts electronics complexity risks: Pt. 2- Design for robustness
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As discussed in the Part 1 of this series (requirements and assessment flow), safety is one of the key parameters that most of automotive companies are focusing on. Part I…
Twin Creeks emerges with new solar cell manufacturing approach
Twin Creeks emerges with new solar cell manufacturing approach
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Squeezing another penny out of the cost of conventional solar cell manufacturing is no longer a viable approach for cleantech companies that have seen the price of solar panels drop…
Migration of existing applications from FlexRay electrical physical layer specification revision 2.1 to revision 3.0
Migration of existing applications from FlexRay electrical physical layer specification revision 2.1 to revision 3.0
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The FlexRay electrical physical layer spec rev. 3.0.1 has been released. Mass production of the second generation of FlexRay transceivers according to that revision has started. Established silicon solutions will…
TI announces partnership to take OMAP into robotics
TI announces partnership to take OMAP into robotics
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Texas Instruments Inc., (Dallas, Texas) has announced a partnership with iRobot Corp., to develop robotics technology based on the TI's OMAP application processors.
The Challenges of Choosing Off-Line LED Driver Topologies
The Challenges of Choosing Off-Line LED Driver Topologies
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When considering LED driver topologies to convert AC input voltage to a constant regulated current source for the LED loads, it is helpful to view LED applications in three general…
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #63: Using SPICE to design the PID control for a TEC temperature loop
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #63: Using SPICE to design the PID control for a TEC temperature loop
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Mathew Hann, SAR Product Line Manager, Texas Instruments explains how to use SPICE to design the PID controller for a TEC temperature loop.
Freescale first with low cost ARM M0+ microcontrollers to push 8bit to 32bit transition
Freescale first with low cost ARM M0+ microcontrollers to push 8bit to 32bit transition
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Freescale is aiming to be the first to ship the latest generation of ARM's 32bit Cortex-M0+ low cost, low power microcontrollers ahead of Energy Micro and NXP Semiconductors pushing the…
MEMJET Technology to enter the printing market
MEMJET Technology to enter the printing market
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In 2007 MEMJET Inc was Spun-off from Silverbrook Research, a private Institute based in Balmain, Australia. With more than 3,000 patents related to Inkjet printing technologies, Silverbrook paved the way…
Isolated flyback controller with PFC controls voltage or current
Isolated flyback controller with PFC controls voltage or current
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Linear Technology’s LT®3798 isolated controller with active power factor correction (PFC) is specifically designed for regulating bus voltages or driving constant current applications over a wide input range of 10…
Solar panels derived from CERN technology will support the one of Switzerland’s largest solar energy systems
Solar panels derived from CERN technology will support the one of Switzerland’s largest solar energy systems
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At Geneva International Airport SRB Energy has delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems of Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature…
Transmitter/receiver pair serves as antitheft alarm
Transmitter/receiver pair serves as antitheft alarm
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Tom Au-Yeung and Wilson Tang of Maxim Integrated Products describes how a transmitter/receiver pair can serve as antitheft alarm.
A Current Sensing Tutorial – Part IV: Layout and Troubleshooting Guidelines
A Current Sensing Tutorial – Part IV: Layout and Troubleshooting Guidelines
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Pete Semig and Collin Wells, Texas Instruments explains how poor matching between two input signal currents (or input offset current, Ios) can induce and/or exacerbate a differential voltage at the…
Meet present and future test requirements with versatile signal-scenario generation
Meet present and future test requirements with versatile signal-scenario generation
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During the development of next-generation radar, satellite and electronic warfare (EW) systems, the use of advanced signal simulation can add greater versatility to a test system.
New online energy harvesting data repository is unveiled
New online energy harvesting data repository is unveiled
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The University of Southampton is launching a new resource for the world's scientific community which will provide energy data from sources such as human motion, wind speeds and light irradiance…
Audi highlights connected car concept at CeBIT
Audi highlights connected car concept at CeBIT
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In times when cars are increasingly becoming accessible to cloud-based IT services, it is only logical that carmakers present their products at IT trade fairs. As the forerunner, Audi presents…
Holey optical transceiver breaks the 1-Tbit/s barrier
Holey optical transceiver breaks the 1-Tbit/s barrier
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Engineers from IBM Corp., have developed a prototype parallel optical transceiver that can transfer data at a rate of one terabit per second. The optical chipset is due to be…
Research project sketches centralized computing architecture for e-cars
Research project sketches centralized computing architecture for e-cars
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It has become somewhat silent about electric vehicles, and at the current Geneva Motor Show, e-cars do not take center stage, much in contrast to the past few years. This…
Evaluating a DC to DC converter in the lab
Evaluating a DC to DC converter in the lab
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Frederik Dostal, Power Business Technical Manager for Europe at Analog Devices outlines some of the most important procedures required when evaluating a switch mode power supply circuit in the lab.
Printed and potentially printed electronics could reach $9.4 Billion in 2012
Printed and potentially printed electronics could reach $9.4 Billion in 2012
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IDTechEx find that the market for printed and potentially printed electronics in 2012 will be $9.4 Billion. This includes devices not yet printed today but which are moving towards being…
Hard mask development taps use of nanocrystals
Hard mask development taps use of nanocrystals
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Pixelligent, a provider of nanocrystal additives, and Brewer Science are using their nanocrystal and microelectronic coating technologies to create a next-generation spin-on hard mask for semiconductor lithography processes.
ISO 26262 cuts electronics complexity risks: Pt. 1- Requirements and assessment flow
ISO 26262 cuts electronics complexity risks: Pt. 1- Requirements and assessment flow
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Safety is one of the key issues and requirements of today's and tomorrow's automobile development. New functionalities, not only in the area of driver assistance, but also in vehicle dynamics…
Protecting vehicle battery systems from transients, shorts, and other faults
Protecting vehicle battery systems from transients, shorts, and other faults
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The transition from gas-powered vehicles to gas-electric hybrids or all-electric vehicles presents many design challenges for the circuits and subsystems employed in the vehicle due to transients, extreme temperatures, and…
AWR receives patent for block-specific harmonic balance analysis system in electrical circuit design
AWR receives patent for block-specific harmonic balance analysis system in electrical circuit design
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AWR Corporation has been issued a US Patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a “block-specific harmonic balance analysis system.” Originally filed on December 3, 2008, US…
Holst Centre, Solvay demo flexible OLED lighting tile with high efficiency
Holst Centre, Solvay demo flexible OLED lighting tile with high efficiency
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Holst Centre and chemical group Solvay have demonstrated high efficiency flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) lighting tiles with a surface area of 69cm2. These large-area demonstrators contain several layers…


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