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ADI aims to help engineers solve design challenges in analog, RF and mixed-signal systems
ADI aims to help engineers solve design challenges in analog, RF and mixed-signal systems
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Analog Devices, Inc., is aiming to help engineers save weeks of research and design time by extending the company's Circuits…
First low-power, real-time video processing engine utilizes LatticeXP2 FPGAs
First low-power, real-time video processing engine utilizes LatticeXP2 FPGAs
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Thruput Ltd has chosen Lattice Semiconductor's LatticeXP2 FPGAs for use in MIDAS, the first low-power, lossless real time video processing…
Nanocomposite breakthrough for high-capacity hydrogen storage
Nanocomposite breakthrough for high-capacity hydrogen storage
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"This work showcases our ability to design composite nanoscale materials that overcome fundamental thermodynamic and kinetic barriers…
Floating-point MCUs come with model-based design software
Floating-point MCUs come with model-based design software
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Simplifying programming to speed design, Texas Instruments and Visual Solutions have announced that VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer v8.0 (VisSim) provides full,…

Cadence boosts productivity at nodes down to 20-nm by enhancing unified custom/analog flow
Cadence boosts productivity at nodes down to 20-nm by enhancing unified custom/analog flow
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The expanded custom/analog flow – spanning design, implementation, and verification – includes a DFM capability integrated within the Virtuoso environment, and the integrated Virtuoso Power System, which provides a signoff-accurate…
Cadence boosts productivity at nodes down to 20-nm by enhancing unified custom/analog flow
Cadence boosts productivity at nodes down to 20-nm by enhancing unified custom/analog flow
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc., has unveiled major enhancements to its Virtuoso-based custom/analog flow, which will boost productivity across the entire flow from initial design specification to final GDSII and for…
Analog switches in D-PHY MIPI dual camera/dual display applications (Part 1 of 2)
Analog switches in D-PHY MIPI dual camera/dual display applications (Part 1 of 2)
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Graham LS Connolly and Tony Lee of Fairchild Semiconductor describes how by using analog switches the legacy processors can easily interface with dual cameras or dual displays without impacting the…
Floating-point MCUs come with model-based design software
Floating-point MCUs come with model-based design software
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Model-based visual programming tool speeds application development on TI's F2806x Piccolo floating-point microcontrollers. Free two-month trial of Visual Solutions' VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer graphically supports the complete development path from prototyping…
RFIC design software upgraded
RFIC design software upgraded
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Agilent Technologies has announced the latest release of its RFIC simulation, verification and analysis software – GoldenGate version 2011. This release offers improved performance, fast mismatch analyses for analog/RF applications…
Multicore MCUs target ADAS applications
Multicore MCUs target ADAS applications
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A new range of 32-bit MCU family has been designed to make advanced driver assistance systems more affordable for a broad range of vehicles. It could help promote safety features,…
Nanocomposite breakthrough for high-capacity hydrogen storage
Nanocomposite breakthrough for high-capacity hydrogen storage
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Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a new composite material for hydrogen storage consisting of nanoparticles of magnesium metal sprinkled…
Power control in 3G terminals
Power control in 3G terminals
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Jim Nohrden, Black Sand's VP of Marketing, examines how to tame the three conflcting design goals facing the power control system of a modern mobile device.
Inside the iPad 2 and the Apple A5
Inside the iPad 2 and the Apple A5
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Information on what's inside the Apple iPad2 is becoming available as teardown experts open up the first tablets going on sale. Here are some pictures and analysis from our sister…
Power Tip 33: Beware of circulating currents in a SEPIC coupled-inductor – Part 2
Power Tip 33: Beware of circulating currents in a SEPIC coupled-inductor – Part 2
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Robert Kollman of Texas Instruments continues to examine the leakage inductance requirements for the coupled-inductor in a SEPIC topology.
University of Luxembourg reduces tin loss in preparation of thin film solar cells
University of Luxembourg reduces tin loss in preparation of thin film solar cells
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The Laboratory for Photovoltaics of the University of Luxembourg has developed a preparation process for thin film solar cell technologies that improves the control of tin loss and promises record…
University of Luxembourg reduces tin loss in preparation of thin film solar cells
University of Luxembourg reduces tin loss in preparation of thin film solar cells
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Kesterites combine the low cost of thin film solar cell technologies with low raw material cost. Their main component consists of copper, zinc, tin, and sulfur or selenium, all abundant…
Inside the iPad 2 and the Apple A5
Inside the iPad 2 and the Apple A5
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  There are major design wins for Qualcomm again with the MDM6600. Essentially Qualcomm has pushed Infineon–whose wireless properties now belong to Intel–right out of Apple’s flagship products. "It…
Actuation-powered wireless switch eases remote controls
Actuation-powered wireless switch eases remote controls
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Energy harvesting technology has only become commercially available in the last few years and is enabling entirely new, energy-saving applications in building and industrial automation. The first requirement for designing…
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
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Freescale Semiconductor claims to have introduced the industry's first system-on-chip for the two-way radio market. The MC13260 consists of an integrated 32-bit ARM-9™ processor, a software defined modem, an RF…
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
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The single chip MC13260 offers a high level of integration, minimizing external components and slashing the required board area. As a result, it requires less than one third the total…
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
Industry’s first system-on-chip two-way radio enabling cost effective digital radios
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Freescale Semiconductor claims to have introduced the industry's first system-on-chip for the two-way radio market. The MC13260 consists of an integrated 32-bit ARM-9 processor, a software defined modem, an RF…
Russia shows home-grown chip for digital TV
Russia shows home-grown chip for digital TV
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The demonstration was conducted with the cooperation of STB maker General Satellite Corp., (St. Petersburg, Russia) and RC Module’s foundry supplier Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd., (Yokohama, Japan) at the Si-Forum 2011.
World’s largest screen-printed dye solar cell module aimed at building façades
World’s largest screen-printed dye solar cell module aimed at building façades
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The dye solar cell module is still a young photovoltaic technology. However, in the last few years, this technology has started to extend beyond the laboratory level. The ultimate aim…
AR Modular RF designs low-profile 19-inch rack mount amplifier system
AR Modular RF designs low-profile 19-inch rack mount amplifier system
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AR Modular RF has designed a low-profile 19-inch rack system to meet the request of a military integrator that designs and deploys combat simulation training systems worldwide. The 2RU (3.5…
Infinera describes device for Terabit nets
Infinera describes device for Terabit nets
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The work is far in advance of today’s mainstream communications now moving from Gbit to 10 Gbit channels for 100 Gbit/s Ethernet. Many engineers are preparing to shift to 25…
Mentor claims real-time signoff verification
Mentor claims real-time signoff verification
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Mentor Graphics has announced a new capability for its Calibre physical verification platform said to enable signoff-quality physical verification during design creation.
SMBflat package 40% thinner than SOT-223 for power-package miniaturization
SMBflat package 40% thinner than SOT-223 for power-package miniaturization
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Additionally, the ‘creepage’ distances of ST’s X02 series SCRs and Z01 series Triacs, which use this new package, will help meet the insulation requirements of the major safety standards…
SMBflat package 40% thinner than SOT-223 for power-package miniaturization
SMBflat package 40% thinner than SOT-223 for power-package miniaturization
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STMicroelectronics’s advanced SMBflat package is 40% thinner and takes half the PCB space of its closest rival SOT-223, taking AC switches, SCRs and Triacs to new levels of performance and…


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