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Dialog wins Apple MacBook power slot
Dialog wins Apple MacBook power slot
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Incumbent suppliers of power-management ICs have an opportunity to greatly improve efficiency and integration, or lose market to rising stars. One…
Long life DIN rail power supplies target industrial and test applications
Long life DIN rail power supplies target industrial and test applications
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Artesyn Embedded Technologies has launched a cost-effective addition to its DIN rail power supply family to provide reliability and long…
Cadence attacks design challenges with software updates, new DSP
Cadence attacks design challenges with software updates, new DSP
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At the opportunity of its user congress CDN Live Europe, EDA software vendor Cadence introduced a new DSP of its…
Cadence targets embedded neural networks
Cadence targets embedded neural networks
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With up to four times the neural network performance capability of Cadence's (San Jose, CA) previous-generation vision DSP, the Tensilica…

Smart LED controller detects presence, lighting conditions
Smart LED controller detects presence, lighting conditions
New Products |
Futuro Lighting has introduced the smart LED controller, Catherina CTRL, featuring movement detection, ambient sensors as well as dimming, fading, day/night detection, corridor delay and intensity adjustments.
Printed insole sensors analyze runners’ performance
Printed insole sensors analyze runners’ performance
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At this year's Advanced Functional and Industrial Printing (AFIP) conference, Quad Industries' (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) R&D Director Wim Christiaens exposed the company's manufacturing know-how in flexible printed electronics.
Japan’s chip market grows as global decline abates
Japan’s chip market grows as global decline abates
Market news |
A global chip market decline continued though to then end of the first quarter of 2016, according to figures from the Semiconductor Industry Association. While markets fell on an annual…
App-controlled LED smart lamp seeks crowd funding
App-controlled LED smart lamp seeks crowd funding
New Products |
Wireless LED lighting provider VividLite (San Juan Capistrano, CA) is leveraging crowd-funding platform Kickstarter to raise $50,000 in funding for an app-powered smart lamp, the ShadowBox.
Grey-scale OLED patterns reach 12,700 dpi resolution
Grey-scale OLED patterns reach 12,700 dpi resolution
Technology News |
Researchers from Fraunhofer FEP have successfully used e-beams to pattern the emission area of an OLED, forming permanent high resolution grey-scale images.
Grey-scale messaging on plain OLEDs: at 12,700 dpi
Grey-scale messaging on plain OLEDs: at 12,700 dpi
Technology News |
Researchers from Fraunhofer FEP have successfully used e-beams to pattern the emission area of an OLED, forming permanent high resolution grey-scale images.
Slideshow: Is anybody out there?
Slideshow: Is anybody out there?
Feature articles |
Steve Taranovich provides 10 examples of NASA searching for alien life.
Micro-power 65V buck converters offer industry’s lowest quiescent current
Micro-power 65V buck converters offer industry’s lowest quiescent current
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Texas Instruments (TI) has launched two 65V, 150mA synchronous DC/DC buck converters with 10.5μA quiescent current for powering factory automation and automotive sensors requiring high efficiency.
NXP takes automotive chip vendor crown
NXP takes automotive chip vendor crown
Market news |
Following its takeover of Freescale, NXP Semiconductor has been declared the leading automotive chip vendor for 2015 by market research firm Strategy Analytics.
Smart LED controller detects presence, lighting conditions
Smart LED controller detects presence, lighting conditions
New Products |
Futuro Lighting introduced the smart LED controller, Catherina CTRL, featuring movement detection, ambient sensors as well as dimming, fading, day/night detection, corridor delay and intensity adjustments.
Hall-effect current sensor has 1MHz bandwidth for power sensing
Hall-effect current sensor has 1MHz bandwidth for power sensing
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Allegro MicroSystems Europe has released its first 1MHz bandwidth Hall-effect current sensor IC.
Spiral modulation startup aims at communications revolution
Spiral modulation startup aims at communications revolution
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Astrapi Corp. (Dallas, Texas), a six-year-old startup founded to apply non-periodic signal modulation to communications engineering, has formed a research partnership with TSR Research Lab at the University of the…
Test tool box has data centres covered
Test tool box has data centres covered
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Microlease has introduced a new Datacentre Tool Box to equip data centre engineering teams and their subcontractors with the varied instrumentation support that they need to complete installation, upgrades and…
Hall-effect current sensor has 1MHz bandwidth
Hall-effect current sensor has 1MHz bandwidth
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Allegro MicroSystems Europe has released its first ever 1MHz bandwidth Hall-effect current sensor IC, boasting a 210ns response time.
Powerbox to acquire Eplax for more custom power
Powerbox to acquire Eplax for more custom power
Business news |
One of Europe’s largest power supply companies, Powerbox has acquired the privately-held German power supply manufacturer Eplax for an undisclosed amount.
Embedded neural networks: Cadence’s latest DSP target
Embedded neural networks: Cadence’s latest DSP target
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With up to four times the neural network performance capability of Cadence's previous-generation vision DSP, the Tensilica Vision P6 DSP is the company’s highest-performing vision/imaging processor.
App-controlled LED smart lamp seeks backers
App-controlled LED smart lamp seeks backers
New Products |
Wireless LED lighting provider VividLite is leveraging crowd-funding platform Kickstarter to raise $50,000 in funding for an app-powered smart lamp, the ShadowBox.
Qualcomm offers neural network SDK for Snapdragon processor
Qualcomm offers neural network SDK for Snapdragon processor
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is planning to offer a deep learning software development kit (SDK) for use with its Snapdragon 820 processors in the second half of 2016.
Printed sensors take the pressure off runners’ coaches
Printed sensors take the pressure off runners’ coaches
Technology News |
At this year's Advanced Functional and Industrial Printing (AFIP) conference, Quad Industries' R&D Director Wim Christiaens exposed the company's manufacturing know-how in flexible printed electronics.
Printed sensors analyze runners’ foot steps
Printed sensors analyze runners’ foot steps
Technology News |
At this year's Advanced Functional and Industrial Printing (AFIP) conference, Quad Industries' R&D Director Wim Christiaens exposed the company's manufacturing know-how in flexible printed electronics.
Rethink the button: An inductive-sensing approach
Rethink the button: An inductive-sensing approach
Feature articles |
Inductive-sensing technology is revolutionizing the traditional approach to designing human-machine interfaces (HMIs). System designers are rethinking fundamental building blocks such as simple on/off buttons and attempting to solve many of…
65-V micro-power buck converters, lowest quiescent current
65-V micro-power buck converters, lowest quiescent current
New Products |
These 150-mA synchronous DC/DC regulators optimize light-load efficiency for factory automation and automotive applications, and claim the lowest-available quiescent current (IQ) of 10.5 µA; use them TI suggests, for powering…
Dual 375 nanoamp op amp with independent shutdowns
Dual 375 nanoamp op amp with independent shutdowns
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Despite the very many op amps available on the market, configurable-mixed-signal-IC maker Silego configured one more; an amplifier that among other uses is specifically suited as a high performance front…
Low-power NDIR sensors measure CH4, CO2, hydrocarbons – in distribution
Low-power NDIR sensors measure CH4, CO2, hydrocarbons – in distribution
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Specialist distributor and design services company Unitronic (Düsseldorf, Germany) has a series of ultra low power NDIR-sensors for the reliable measurement of small concentrations of methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2)…


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