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Texas Instruments unveils industry’s most accurate amplifier for high common-mode-voltage applications
Texas Instruments unveils industry’s most accurate amplifier for high common-mode-voltage applications
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Texas Instruments Incorporated is claiming the industry's most accurate difference amplifier for high common-mode-voltage applications up to +275 V. The…
New DC-DC power technology aims to be the greenest yet
New DC-DC power technology aims to be the greenest yet
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Bob Marchetti, Senior Manager, Product Mktg, Brick Division Vicor explains how a new circuit technique using the Sine Amplitude Converter…
Intelligent plug aims to save energy
Intelligent plug aims to save energy
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A new range of intelligent plugs that tailor electricity supply to appliance usage and can pay for themselves in a…
3-D ultrasonic camera for non-destructive testing of aircraft
3-D ultrasonic camera for non-destructive testing of aircraft
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EADS Innovation Works, a research and technology unit belonging to aerospace and defense group EADS, parent company of Airbus and…

SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #60: Tracking down spurious signals in high-speed ADCs
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS #60: Tracking down spurious signals in high-speed ADCs
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Robert Keller, Systems and Applications Manager, High-Speed Data Converters, Texas Instruments, examines approaches for tracking down spurious signals in high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) systems.
Starchip to integrate Crocus magnetic logic into SoCs
Starchip to integrate Crocus magnetic logic into SoCs
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French design startup Starchip is working with Crocus to embed magnetic logic into system-on-chip devices.
MEMS energy harvester achieves output power of 489-uW
MEMS energy harvester achieves output power of 489-uW
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Imec in collaboration with Holst Centre have developed a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489 µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is…
Xilinx demos, ships Zynq-7000 devices
Xilinx demos, ships Zynq-7000 devices
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At the ARM European Technical Conference (AETC), Xilinx Inc., has announced it is now shipping its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) devices and provided the first public demonstration the devices…
FD-SOI less ‘risk’ than FinFETs, says SOI body
FD-SOI less ‘risk’ than FinFETs, says SOI body
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The SOI Industry Consortium, and industry body for proponents for silicon-on-insulator manufacturing, reckons it's got fresh evidence in favor of using the fully-depleted version of its technology FD-SOI instead of…
MEMS energy harvester achieves output power of 489-µW
MEMS energy harvester achieves output power of 489-µW
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Imec in collaboration with Holst Centre have developed a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489 µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is…
ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics join forces in European VENTURI augmented reality project
ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics join forces in European VENTURI augmented reality project
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To accelerate the creation and adoption of technologies that enrich people's daily experience, ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics announced their collaboration in the VENTURI (immersiVe ENhancemenT of User-woRld Interactions) European scientific project…
Designing capacitive sensing for a specific application (Part 2 of 3)
Designing capacitive sensing for a specific application (Part 2 of 3)
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Shruti H and Subbarao Lanka of Cypress Semiconductor corp., continue their analysis of different hurdles faced when designing a capacitive sensing interface and methods developers can use to overcome typical…
Software-defined radio opens up new chances for the automobile industry
Software-defined radio opens up new chances for the automobile industry
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The general explosion in available processor power makes SDR interesting for automobile OEMs. First of all, moving radio functions from hardware into software opens up cost benefits for global car…
Video: Wide VIN range step-down regulators consume only 2.8 µA input current
Video: Wide VIN range step-down regulators consume only 2.8 µA input current
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Battery life is paramount in modern battery-powered systems. Portable applications, such as remote sensors, require voltage regulators which have low current standby states and also able to provide bursts of…
Foundry to offer FRAM as standard
Foundry to offer FRAM as standard
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Chip foundry Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd and chip and materials vendor Symetrix Corp., will collaborate to offer non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) as a standard memory offering for the…
SuVolta transistor operates down to 0.4-V
SuVolta transistor operates down to 0.4-V
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Startup SuVolta Inc., has announced that its novel transistor technology, dubbed PowerShrink, operates down to 0.425-V, approximately 300-mV below conventional processes. PowerShrink is based on a deeply depleted channel (DDC)…
Rohde & Schwarz and u-blox verify GLONASS compatibility
Rohde & Schwarz and u-blox verify GLONASS compatibility
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Rohde & Schwarz (Munich, Germany) and U-blox (Thalwil, Switzerland) have successfully concluded a simulation of the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system.
PandaBoard ES equips open source mobile developers with TI’s OMAP4460 processor
PandaBoard ES equips open source mobile developers with TI’s OMAP4460 processor
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Pandaboard.org, which is an online resource for the growing, active community supporting PandaBoard, the low-cost, open OMAP 4 processor-based mobile software development platform, has announced the general availability of PandaBoard…
Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell
Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell
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At the 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec presented what the company claims to be the world's smallest, fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell, with an area of…
Sony game exec spells out chip needs
Sony game exec spells out chip needs
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Chip makers need to advance image recognition, display and MEMS technologies to deliver the next-generation of immersive gaming applications built around interactivity and augmented reality, the CTO of Playstation developer…
UCB reports printed MEMS switches
UCB reports printed MEMS switches
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A team of researchers from the University of California Berkeley has a paper at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) that describes how to use an inkjet printer to print…
MEMS transistor integrated on CMOS
MEMS transistor integrated on CMOS
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A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) transistor was announced by Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) and Cornell University, giving SRC members access to on-chip timing solutions for their CMOS chips.
Latest Opera electromagnetics simulator accelerates design projects and adds 3D mechanical stress analysis
Latest Opera electromagnetics simulator accelerates design projects and adds 3D mechanical stress analysis
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The latest version of the Opera electromagnetics simulator for design engineers, from the Vector Fields Software business unit of Cobham Technical Services, adds three-dimensional mechanical stress analysis, extending the tool's…
Custom test method saves development time for advanced wireless systems
Custom test method saves development time for advanced wireless systems
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Agilent Technologies and Lime Microsystems have announced a custom pairing of test equipment, transceiver technology and control software that constitutes a new method for testing and evaluating advanced wireless systems.
Searched: HMI which stimulates eco-friendly driving
Searched: HMI which stimulates eco-friendly driving
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How can the design of a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) encourage drivers to change their driving behavior and reduce fuel consumption? This is the central question for the European research project…
Visible and invisible semiconductor light for tomorrow’s TV
Visible and invisible semiconductor light for tomorrow’s TV
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When 3D TV started in the 1980s, glasses with differently coloured lenses (red and green) were required to experience this technology. 3D glasses are still with us today but the…
SEGGER Microcontroller embedded software begins supporting Energy Micro’s Cortex-M3 Gecko microcontrollers
SEGGER Microcontroller embedded software begins supporting Energy Micro’s Cortex-M3 Gecko microcontrollers
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SEGGER Microcontroller's high-performance embedded middleware suite is now supporting Energy Micro's range of ultra low energy ARM Cortex-M3 based EFM32 Gecko microcontrollers.
Fujitsu Semiconductor adopts Apache Design’s Totem software for power noise and reliability analysis
Fujitsu Semiconductor adopts Apache Design’s Totem software for power noise and reliability analysis
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Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited is deploying Apache Design, Inc’s Totem software to analyze and optimize all their custom integrated circuit (IC) designs which includes analog, memory, high-speed I/O, PMIC (power management…


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