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Wide input voltage buck converter for USB type-C transceivers
Wide input voltage buck converter for USB type-C transceivers
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In battery-powered applications, Maxim Integrated’s MAX77596 allows always-on operation; designers of USB Type-C small form factor devices can now create…
2/4 channel USB interface ICs, with module option
2/4 channel USB interface ICs, with module option
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To provide engineers with a greater breadth of IO options and also address demands to conserve board real estate, FTDI…
Training programme for users of Renesas’ Synergy platform
Training programme for users of Renesas’ Synergy platform
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Renesas Electronics Europe and MicroConsult GmbH are to collaborate on the provision of customer training courses for the Renesas Synergy…
Memory interface ICs match enterprise DDR4 and Xeon processor E5-2600 v4
Memory interface ICs match enterprise DDR4 and Xeon processor E5-2600 v4
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Integrated Device Technology's 4RCD0124K register, 4DB0226KA3 data buffer and TSE2004 temperature sensor components are fully qualified by memory eco-system leaders,…

Cadence acquires parallel logic simulation speed-up tech with Rocketick purchase
Cadence acquires parallel logic simulation speed-up tech with Rocketick purchase
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Cadence Design Systems purchase Israeli company Rocketick Technologies, a specialist in multicore parallel simulation, capable of, Cadence asserts, applying fine-grain multiprocessing technology to accelerate RTL simulation up the six-fold, or…
60 GHz chipset for WiGig outdoor wireless infrastructure
60 GHz chipset for WiGig outdoor wireless infrastructure
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Canadian fabless chip maker Peraso recently announced production of its X610 Wireless Infrastructure Chipset; now the company has added that it is able to support higher production volumes due to…
GaN RF devices prove space-level reliability
GaN RF devices prove space-level reliability
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Gallium nitride RF power transistors in Cree's Wolfspeed brand have been tested in a joint programme with high-reliability specialist KCB Solutions; the process upscreens the GaN RF HEMTs to Class…
Cree’s XP-G3 LED platform delivers more than 205-LPW
Cree’s XP-G3 LED platform delivers more than 205-LPW
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Cree, Inc. has introduced the XLamp XP-G3 LED which claims to deliver 31 percent more lumens and eight percent higher lumens-per-watt (LPW) than the industry-leading XP-G2 LED.
Hyperspectral startup raises $7.5 million
Hyperspectral startup raises $7.5 million
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Unispectal Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel) a company founded this year to commercialize image sensor technology developed at Tel Aviv University has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding.
Hybrid quantum dot material promises improved light harvesting devices
Hybrid quantum dot material promises improved light harvesting devices
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and the University of Nebraska have discovered a method of harnessing the power of the sun to…
Osram achieves 7.5% more efficacy from high-power LEDs
Osram achieves 7.5% more efficacy from high-power LEDs
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Osram Opto Semiconductors (Regensburg, Germany) claims to have improved the luminous efficacy of its high-power LEDs by reducing the unwanted droop effect at high currents.
China steps up fabless game
China steps up fabless game
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Europe's market share as a supplier of fabless chips to the world market has halved to 2 percent over the last five years while China's has doubled to 10 percent,…
Next-gen inertial sensors aim to replace GPS
Next-gen inertial sensors aim to replace GPS
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, CA ) $4.3 million to develop vibration- and shock-tolerant inertial sensor technology that enables future system…
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
60V 8-Switch Matrix LED Dimmer
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LEDs are being used in current luxury model automotive headlights. Future automotive headlight designs include more powerful LEDs, more LEDs, and highly animated and multifunctional LED strings. These "matrix" LED…
Eurocard offers complete power flexibility up to 100W
Eurocard offers complete power flexibility up to 100W
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The MPK multi-power card, a 19-in. Euro card with up to six galvanically isolated outputs in 6 or 8 TE from MTM Power, provides almost every required output configuration within…
Motor drive ICs evaluated with Ardunio-compatible shield board
Motor drive ICs evaluated with Ardunio-compatible shield board
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For easier design-ins in shorter timescales, and to support the evaluation of its motor driver devices, Rohm is about to launch an Arduino-based evaluation kit (EVK). Designed as a ‘shield’…
Single-box, real-world interference impairment injection for connected car developers
Single-box, real-world interference impairment injection for connected car developers
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Spirent Communications (Crawley, UK), as part of its connected car verification systems, has announced instrumentation to reduce the time and cost needed to develop automotive Ethernet BroadR-Reach systems for connected…
It hurts when…
It hurts when…
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Scott Deuty considers the creativity of engineers when it comes to naming the things they make and the things they use.
Automotive DC/DC converters step-down 5V rails to point-of-load
Automotive DC/DC converters step-down 5V rails to point-of-load
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Intersil’s synchronous buck regulators deliver POL conversions for infotainment and advanced driver assistance systems; a family of monolithic synchronous buck regulators step-down 5V and 3.3V primary rails to point-of-load (POL)…
Dual picture video processor for high resolution automotive panels
Dual picture video processor for high resolution automotive panels
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Toshiba Electronics' dual-picture video processor for high resolution automotive displays, the TC90195XBG, provides support for automotive navigation, entertainment and driver support systems; the device features enhanced LCD resolution and support…
Study: 3D printing is changing the way developers work
Study: 3D printing is changing the way developers work
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The technology of additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) has reached series maturity – in particular in the areas of medical products, aerospace and turbines. The high innovation potential of 3D…
Feedback button tricks consumers into machine status reporting
Feedback button tricks consumers into machine status reporting
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Enterprise IoT solutions provider ContinuumBridge has launched Spur, a call-to-action device and service that tricks consumers into reporting machine status to their host.
Crowdsourced machine status reporting
Crowdsourced machine status reporting
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Enterprise IoT solutions provider ContinuumBridge has launched Spur, a call-to-action device and service that tricks consumers into reporting machine status to their host.
China gains ground as fabless chip supplier
China gains ground as fabless chip supplier
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Europe's market share as a supplier of fabless chips to the world market has halved to 2 percent over the last five years while China's has doubled to 10 percent,…
Next-generation inertial sensors aim to replace GPS technology
Next-generation inertial sensors aim to replace GPS technology
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded HRL Laboratories, LLC, $4.3 million to develop vibration- and shock-tolerant inertial sensor technology that enables future system accuracy needs without…
Chip market fell 2.3% in 2015, says Gartner
Chip market fell 2.3% in 2015, says Gartner
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Slowing demand in key applications and currency fluctuations caused turbulence in the semiconductor market in 2015, according to market researcher Gartner Inc.
iGuzzini signs up as licensee to Philips EnabLED Licensing Program
iGuzzini signs up as licensee to Philips EnabLED Licensing Program
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Philips Lighting has entered into a patent license agreement with the Italian company iGuzzini. The license provides iGuzzini with full, worldwide access to a wide range of basic LED control…
Osram squeezes 7.5 percent more luminous efficacy from high-power LEDs
Osram squeezes 7.5 percent more luminous efficacy from high-power LEDs
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Osram Opto Semiconductors claims to have improved the luminous efficacy of the company's high-power LEDs by reducing the unwanted droop effect at high currents.


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