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TSMC announces 28nm in full production
TSMC announces 28nm in full production
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TSMC’s 28nm process offering includes 28nm High Performance (28HP), 28nm High Performance Low Power (28HPL), 28nm Low Power (28LP), and…
Power supply design impregnated into textiles
Power supply design impregnated into textiles
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Scientists in the US have taken the first steps towards designing a flexible and lightweight fabric that can act as…
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 5 of 5)
Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Systems (Part 5 of 5)
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Steven Beeby and Neil White, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. continues to provide a detailed understanding of the options for…
Volvo engineers mull over perfect sound for e-cars
Volvo engineers mull over perfect sound for e-cars
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The advent of electric cars creates new challenges for automotive designers: While with conventional cars they invested lots of brain…

Thinfilm unveils first scalable printed CMOS memory
Thinfilm unveils first scalable printed CMOS memory
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PARC, a Xerox company, announced recently they have produced a working prototype of the world's first printed non-volatile memory device addressed with complementary organic circuits, the organic equivalent of CMOS…
Graphene’s unusual thermoelectric response to light
Graphene’s unusual thermoelectric response to light
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MIT researchers have found that, sparked by light's energy, graphene can produce electric current in unusual ways. The finding could lead to improvements in photodetectors and night-vision systems, and possibly…
Multicell Battery Stack Monitor IC for High Voltage Applications
Multicell Battery Stack Monitor IC for High Voltage Applications
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Stacks of lithium ion cells are used in new hybrid electric vehicles and uninterruptible power supplies. Maximizing the life and the safety of these high voltage, high power battery packs…
Graphene’s unusual thermoelectric response to light
Graphene’s unusual thermoelectric response to light
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MIT researchers have found that, sparked by light's energy, graphene can produce electric current in unusual ways. The finding could lead to improvements in photodetectors and night-vision systems, and possibly…
Nanoconfined organic solar cell material enhances conductivity
Nanoconfined organic solar cell material enhances conductivity
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Sometimes a change in surroundings makes all the difference. That's the approach a group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has used to improve…
Research program aims at parallelizing real-time software
Research program aims at parallelizing real-time software
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More powerful software for time-critical systems through parallel processing is the goal of the parMERASA research project funded by the EU. Examples for products that would benefit from the project…
ARM Cortex-A7 combines 5x better efficiency and higher performance for smartphones and tablets
ARM Cortex-A7 combines 5x better efficiency and higher performance for smartphones and tablets
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One of the most significant challenges today is how to create a System on Chip (SoC) that meets the conflicting consumer demand for devices with both higher-performance and extended battery…
Siemens, BMW develop high-speed EV charging system
Siemens, BMW develop high-speed EV charging system
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Siemens and BMW have developed a flexible fast transfer charging system for electric vehicles, enabling the driver to charge the battery from AC or DC energy sources using the same…
Researchers use glass to imprint lab-on-chip sensors
Researchers use glass to imprint lab-on-chip sensors
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A glass stamp approach similar to nanoimprint lithography and using glass instead of polymer may help researchers clear a large hurdle in scaling up lab-on-a-chip manufacturing.
‘Microring’ device could aid in future optical technologies
‘Microring’ device could aid in future optical technologies
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Researchers at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a device small enough to fit on a computer chip that converts continuous laser light…
ARM Cortex-A7 combines 5x better efficiency and higher performance for smartphones and tablets
ARM Cortex-A7 combines 5x better efficiency and higher performance for smartphones and tablets
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One of the most significant challenges today is how to create a System on Chip (SoC) that meets the conflicting consumer demand for devices with both higher-performance and extended battery…
Soitec launches fifth generation of CPV systems for large-scale solar power plants
Soitec launches fifth generation of CPV systems for large-scale solar power plants
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Soitec has introduced the company’s fifth generation of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems with enhanced features and performance characteristics specifically designed to benefit large-scale utility power plants. The new product configuration…
Freescale tackles automotive infotainment, mobile devices with combination of ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15
Freescale tackles automotive infotainment, mobile devices with combination of ARM Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15
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Freescale Semiconductor has licensed the new, ultra-efficient ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore processor in conjunction with the previously licensed Cortex-A15 processor. The company plans to leverage the energy efficiency and performance of…
How to maintain color levels of LED light sources within cars
How to maintain color levels of LED light sources within cars
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Light emitting diodes are perfect for lighting purposes within cars. But the side effects of LED light is that the wave length changes with the ambient temperature, the intensity loses…
Real-time power management system for sensorless motor control and short circuit localization
Real-time power management system for sensorless motor control and short circuit localization
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Integrated mechatronic systems open doors to better diagnosis and better control of actuators. The combination of power line communication and distributed computing offers a smart and low-cost solution for in-car…
Low-cost audio processor eliminates need to write or license audio algorithms
Low-cost audio processor eliminates need to write or license audio algorithms
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Quickfilter Technologies has introduced a 3-channel audio processor that is designed for seamless insertion into an audio serial digital data path. The single-chip QF3DFX Profound Sound Audio Processor is easily…
Assertion-based verification in mixed-signal design
Assertion-based verification in mixed-signal design
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Prabal Bhattacharya and Don O'Riordan of Cadence examine challenges in analog/mixed-signal verification, and evaluate how the assertion-based verification concept can address some of the challenges. They also look at how…
Hunting noise sources in wireless embedded systems
Hunting noise sources in wireless embedded systems
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When integrating a radio chip or module into a typical embedded system, a common and often frustrating task that designers face is tracking down and eliminating noise and spurious signals.
Improve DAC integral nonlinearity through gain correction
Improve DAC integral nonlinearity through gain correction
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Onur Ozbek of Cypress Semiconductor Corp considers how to improve DAC integral nonlinearity by applying gain correction techniques.
Options for simulating wideband signals
Options for simulating wideband signals
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John S. Hansen of Agilent Technologies investigates some of the options for simulating wideband signals.
LED street lighting project cuts energy consumption in half
LED street lighting project cuts energy consumption in half
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As of late, the streets in the historic centre of Arraiolos in Portugal have been lit up entirely by energy-efficient lighting diode technology (LED), used in combination with an intelligent…
ARM and TSMC tape out first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 multicore processor
ARM and TSMC tape out first 20nm ARM Cortex-A15 multicore processor
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The two companies say they completed the implementation from RTL to tape out in six months using TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 20nm design ecosystem. Building on this tape out,…
Bionics innovation reduces battery electrode filling times
Bionics innovation reduces battery electrode filling times
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The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physico-chemical effect that…
Carrier identification counter-measures critical for combating satellite interference
Carrier identification counter-measures critical for combating satellite interference
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Satellite communications specialist Newtec has given its unreserved support for the standardisation and adoption of industry-wide counter-measures to combat interference.


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