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IPC-9850A SMT placement characterization standard simplifies comparison of placement equipment
IPC-9850A SMT placement characterization standard simplifies comparison of placement equipment
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As EMS companies have ramped up speeds to meet the high demand for electronics, equipment manufacturers have responded by developing…
Bluetooth headset uses austriamicrosystems’ Active Noise Cancelling solution for clear, crisp audio in noisy surroundings
Bluetooth headset uses austriamicrosystems’ Active Noise Cancelling solution for clear, crisp audio in noisy surroundings
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The Jabra SUPREME Bluetooth headset is now featuring austriamicrosystems Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) IC which improves hearing in noisy environments…
ADC Guide, Part 1: the ideal analog/digital converter
ADC Guide, Part 1: the ideal analog/digital converter
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Sachin Gupta and Akshay Phatak of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. discuss what exactly an ADC is and how an ideal ADC…
Bluetooth low energy and proprietary RF for HID applications – A comparison
Bluetooth low energy and proprietary RF for HID applications – A comparison
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Anitha TG of Cypress Semiconductors compares the Bluetooth Low Energy technology with the proprietary protocols in the HID market.

Researchers create a silicon wire 4 atoms wide, 1 atom tall
Researchers create a silicon wire 4 atoms wide, 1 atom tall
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The smallest wires ever developed in silicon, just one atom tall and four atoms wide, have been shown by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales,…
JEDEC publishes Wide I/O mobile DRAM standard enabling chip-level 3D stacking with TSVs
JEDEC publishes Wide I/O mobile DRAM standard enabling chip-level 3D stacking with TSVs
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JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced a new standard for Wide I/O mobile DRAM: JESD229 Wide I/O Single Data Rate (SDR). The new standard is considered a breakthrough technology…
Treehouse Labs and NXP unveil low-power wireless chip technology platform to slash wireless sensor network costs
Treehouse Labs and NXP unveil low-power wireless chip technology platform to slash wireless sensor network costs
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Treehouse Labs has unveiled the BiKN Technology Platform which uses low-power wireless chip technology from NXP Semiconductors N.V. to enable the 'Internet of Things ', opening entirely new markets and…
NXP teams with Treehouse for machine networks
NXP teams with Treehouse for machine networks
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NXP's low power wireless chips are being used for new technology for control, tracking and monitoring machine networks from US startup Treehouse Labs. The Treehouse BiKN Technology Platform is using…
New codec and compression techniques bring clarity to CCTV surveillance
New codec and compression techniques bring clarity to CCTV surveillance
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Business and product innovation consultancy, Plextek of Cambridge, UK, has developed new codecs to address the issue of poor image quality that has become synonymous with many wireless CCTV surveillance…
Broadcom to show industry’s first integrated MoCA® 2.0 SoC portfolio at CES 2012
Broadcom to show industry’s first integrated MoCA® 2.0 SoC portfolio at CES 2012
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Broadcom Corporation has announced that it will showcase the industry's first MoCA 2.0-Integrated Portfolio including six new set-top box (STB) and Hybrid IP Gateway system on a chip (SoC) platforms…
Wireless Power Consortium to demonstrate over 75 new products featuring Qi at CES 2012
Wireless Power Consortium to demonstrate over 75 new products featuring Qi at CES 2012
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The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced it will demonstrate more than 75 new products and prototypes at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. Demos will be held from January…
Sensorless sinusoidal motor control IC receives IMQ certification
Sensorless sinusoidal motor control IC receives IMQ certification
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International Rectifier's IRMCK171 one-time programmable ROM-based monolithic mixed-signal IC for sensorless sinusoidal motor control of appliances now meets the standards of IMQ (Italy) Annex R of IEC 60335-1 Edition 4.2…
Low phase noise frequency synthesizers for RF applications
Low phase noise frequency synthesizers for RF applications
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In modern RF communication systems, signal integrity is of prime importance. To meet the system requirements, amplifiers, mixers and modulators must have a low noise figure and low distortion products.
Laser-based optical lithography to yield a resolution of 2nm half-pitch lines
Laser-based optical lithography to yield a resolution of 2nm half-pitch lines
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In a paper to be presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2012 in February, Storex Technologies will disclose a novel optical lithography technique which it claims offers a resolution of 2nm…
Phone charging using harvested solar energy: Nokia’s conclusions
Phone charging using harvested solar energy: Nokia’s conclusions
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Nokia has completed a research project on phone charging using harvested solar energy. So can the sun be relied on to charge your phone? Nokia is searching for improved energy…
RFID antennas laser cut from aluminium and paper laminate
RFID antennas laser cut from aluminium and paper laminate
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The manufacturing of RFID antennas through the process of etching is now being challenged by a new patented technology: Walki-4E, an efficient way of producing flexible circuit boards. This is…
CEVA moves into embedded vision
CEVA moves into embedded vision
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Digital signal processor core developer CEVA is moving into the embedded vision market with a high performance core that supports gesture recognition in hardware.
Phone charging using harvested solar energy: Nokia’s conclusions
Phone charging using harvested solar energy: Nokia’s conclusions
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Nokia has completed a research project on phone charging using harvested solar energy. So can the sun be relied on to charge your phone? Nokia is searching for improved energy…
Innovative 36 GHz SiGe chipset drives world’s fastest 60-GHz real-time bandwidth oscilloscope
Innovative 36 GHz SiGe chipset drives world’s fastest 60-GHz real-time bandwidth oscilloscope
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LeCroy Corporation has announced its highest bandwidth (36 GHz) and highest sample rate (80 GS/s) silicon technologies in the LabMaster 10 Zi oscilloscopes. This advanced chipset represents technology capability well…
Nokia completes research on phone charging using harvested solar energy
Nokia completes research on phone charging using harvested solar energy
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Nokia has completed a research project on phone charging using harvested solar energy. So can the sun be relied on to charge your phone? Nokia is searching for improved energy…
The Top 10 Most Popular Analog Technical Articles of 2011
The Top 10 Most Popular Analog Technical Articles of 2011
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Before we send 2011 packing it might be worthwhile taking a look back at the ten most popular technical articles of 2011 that were featured on EE Times Europe Analog…
The impact of high pulse drain on CR2032 coin-cell battery capacity
The impact of high pulse drain on CR2032 coin-cell battery capacity
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Kjartan Furset of Nordic Semiconductor and Peter Hoffman of Energizer examines the impact of high pulse drain on CR2032 coin-cell battery capacity.
Nanometer-thin film enables highest permittivity capacitors
Nanometer-thin film enables highest permittivity capacitors
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Researchers at the international center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) claim to have developed the world's highest performance thin-film capacitors using a new high-permittivity (high-k) dielectric sheet with molecular-level thickness (at…
Researchers re-create the sky indoors
Researchers re-create the sky indoors
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Researchers in Germany have re-created a moving sky indoors for office lighting through a large array of LEDs.
Graphene mixer could speed up future electronics
Graphene mixer could speed up future electronics
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time demonstrated a novel subharmonic graphene FET mixer at microwave frequencies. The mixer provides new opportunities in future electronics, as…
Atomic layer deposition enables high efficiency silicon nanorod solar cells
Atomic layer deposition enables high efficiency silicon nanorod solar cells
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Picosun Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, reports successful final results of the European Union 7th Framework Programme funded research project ROD-SOL. The goal of this…
Graphene mixer targets very high frequencies
Graphene mixer targets very high frequencies
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time demonstrated a novel subharmonic graphene FET mixer at microwave frequencies. The mixer provides new opportunities in future electronics, as…
UMC tips 0.11-micron aluminum BEOL process
UMC tips 0.11-micron aluminum BEOL process
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Foundry United Microelectronics claims to be the first foundry to provide a specialized 0.11-micron aluminum process in the company's 200-mm fabs.


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