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Leverage Ethernet to improve passenger safety, comfort, and convenience
Leverage Ethernet to improve passenger safety, comfort, and convenience
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In-car electronics are become increasingly complex and data-intensive. This situation again raises questions about networking technologies, bandwidths and architectures. This…
HP releases OpenFlow code for its switches
HP releases OpenFlow code for its switches
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Hewlett-Packard has released OpenFlow software for 16 of its network switches with plans to extend that support this year to…
Latest advances in Wi-Fi to enhance tablets
Latest advances in Wi-Fi to enhance tablets
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Chip makers and consumer electronics manufacturers are working to improve the tablet user experience within the home, turning to newer…
Smart paint could monitor structural safety through conductivity measurements
Smart paint could monitor structural safety through conductivity measurements
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An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs…

New plugmeter reference board provides blueprint for an embedded power meter at the point of load
New plugmeter reference board provides blueprint for an embedded power meter at the point of load
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Future Energy Solutions, a division of technical broadline distributor Future Electronics, has released a Plugmeter reference design enabling the rapid development of electricity metering applications which show consumers their current…
Polyera achieves world-record organic solar cell performance and enables windows to act as solar panels
Polyera achieves world-record organic solar cell performance and enables windows to act as solar panels
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Polyera Corporation has achieved a certified world-record 9.1% efficient polymer/fullerene organic solar cell in an inverted bulk heterojunction architecture using its newest proprietary ActivInk PV2000 semiconductor material. The high efficiency…
Improved Wi-Fi expected to boost tablets
Improved Wi-Fi expected to boost tablets
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Chip makers and consumer electronics manufacturers are working to improve the tablet user experience within the home, turning to newer versions of Wi-Fi to improve connectivity and the ability to…
HP sees future with terabyte backplanes
HP sees future with terabyte backplanes
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The long term future belongs to optical interconnects, low power processors and new kinds of memory architectures, said Prith Banerjee, director of HP Labs in a DesignCon keynote here.
Terabyte backplanes in HP’s crystal ball
Terabyte backplanes in HP’s crystal ball
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The long term future belongs to optical interconnects, low power processors and new kinds of memory architectures, said Prith Banerjee, director of HP Labs in a DesignCon keynote here.
Contrast and color in lighting concepts foster shop acceptance
Contrast and color in lighting concepts foster shop acceptance
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In a combined field and laboratory study Austrian lighting systems vendor Zumtobel has analyzed how lighting concepts can affect and control customers perception and attentiveness in shops. The results show…
CEA-Leti launches Open 3D initiative to include design, layout, testing and packaging
CEA-Leti launches Open 3D initiative to include design, layout, testing and packaging
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CEA-Leti has just launched a major new platform that provides industrial and academic partners with a global offer of mature 3D innovative technologies for their advanced products and research projects.
“Project P” and “Hi-MoCo” projects focus on safety critical model-based integration and code generation
“Project P” and “Hi-MoCo” projects focus on safety critical model-based integration and code generation
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AdaCore has announced its participation in “Project “P” and “Hi-MoCo” (High-Integrity Model Compiler), two open-source research efforts supported and partly funded by the French and Estonian national governments and the…
No magic bullet for crosstalk says DesignCon panel
No magic bullet for crosstalk says DesignCon panel
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There is no perfect solution to the problem of crosstalk in modern communications ICs, an increasing concern as chip designers push devices into the realm of 28-gigabits per second and…
4 x 25 Gb/s active copper cables for 100Gb/s networks demonstrated
4 x 25 Gb/s active copper cables for 100Gb/s networks demonstrated
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Enabling next-generation 100Gb/s networks, Gennum Corporation has demonstrated active copper cables using their 25-28 Gb/s CDRs at the DesignCon 2012 Exhibition in Santa Clara.
3-D IC standards needed within six months
3-D IC standards needed within six months
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Standards for 3-D chip stacks need to be in place within six months to stay ahead of chips rolling out in 2013, said a Qualcomm executive driving some of the…
Continental joins OPEN Alliance Ethernet consortium
Continental joins OPEN Alliance Ethernet consortium
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Automotive supplier Continental AG is a new member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One Pair Ether-Net Alliance Special Interest Group). The group is dedicated to spreading the use of Ethernet…
Vicor unveils online IBC power simulation tool
Vicor unveils online IBC power simulation tool
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Vicor Corporation has unveiled its new IBC Power Simulation tool, an industry-first online simulation capability that enables power system designers to interactively model the electrical and thermal performance of intermediate…
Measuring and understanding oscilloscope update rate
Measuring and understanding oscilloscope update rate
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Brig Asay of Agilent Technologies looks at what is the update rate of an oscilloscope and how to measure it?…
Supercapacitor LED flash/torch controller IC helps overcome LED camera flash limitations
Supercapacitor LED flash/torch controller IC helps overcome LED camera flash limitations
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A supercapacitor LED flash/torch controller IC from STMicroelectronics claims to overcome the limitations of compact digital cameras and cameraphones to satisfy demands for increased power from the built-in flash unit…
New Touchstone video channel focuses on designing with analog ICs
New Touchstone video channel focuses on designing with analog ICs
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Touchstone Semiconductor, a developer of high-performance analog integrated circuit solutions, has launched the new Touchstone Video Channel featuring application videos to help design engineers in applying Touchstone’s analog ICs.
Analog Devices’ FMC boards support Xilinx’s FPGA targeted design platforms to help designers cut development times
Analog Devices’ FMC boards support Xilinx’s FPGA targeted design platforms to help designers cut development times
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Analog Devices, Inc. has introduced two data converter FMC boards (FPGA mezzanine cards) that connect to Xilinx Inc’s new 28 nm 7 series FPGA (field programmable gate array) evaluation kits.
No magic bullet for crosstalk
No magic bullet for crosstalk
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There is no perfect solution to the problem of crosstalk in modern communications ICs, an increasing concern as chip designers push devices into the realm of 28-gigabits per second and…
Qualcomm’s mirasol display used in E-reader
Qualcomm’s mirasol display used in E-reader
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Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of communications chip giant Qualcomm Inc., said Monday that its mirasol display technology is featured in the next generation Jin Yong Reader…
Making sounds with analogue electronics – Part 5: Using analogue synthesis
Making sounds with analogue electronics – Part 5: Using analogue synthesis
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[Part 1 briefly reviews the differences between analogue and digital synthesis, and discusses "one of the major innovations in the development of the synthesizer" – voltage control. Part…
Living room video calling users to surpass 16 million in 2015, says NPD In-Stat
Living room video calling users to surpass 16 million in 2015, says NPD In-Stat
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The video calling market can be divided into three sub-markets depending on the device which is being used to make the call: PCs, Mobile, and living room (digital home) devices.
Avago, TI hit signal milestones
Avago, TI hit signal milestones
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Avago Technologies and Texas Instruments are among the companies at DesignCon this week with new components to drive boards and cables to higher data rates over longer distances for less…
Mentor Graphics, Mecel offer Autosar 4.x software design solution
Mentor Graphics, Mecel offer Autosar 4.x software design solution
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With Autosar 4.x being in the design pipeline for a production start in 2014 to 2016, the automotive value chain increasingly demands development platforms. In order to meet this demand,…
EBV Elektronik opens light laboratory for customers to perform photometric measurements
EBV Elektronik opens light laboratory for customers to perform photometric measurements
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EBV Elektronik is one of the first companies in the European semiconductor distribution industry to offer customers access to a light laboratory. Here, they can perform all relevant photometric and…


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