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Push button and rocker switches are IP65 protected
Push button and rocker switches are IP65 protected
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Cherry Industrial Solutions' KC, KF and KD round waterproof switches meet IP65 specifications and provide a cost-effective switching solution for…
Energy harvesting market set for 20% CAGR
Energy harvesting market set for 20% CAGR
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Energy harvesting is a market that generates more excitement than sales opportunities right now, according to Raghu Das, CEO of…
Battery monitoring chip gets better, cheaper successor
Battery monitoring chip gets better, cheaper successor
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High-voltage battery stacks in hybrid and battery electric vehicles need to be carefully monitored all the time. For this purpose…
Could Bluetooth-enabled credit cards beat NFC?
Could Bluetooth-enabled credit cards beat NFC?
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Quite unusual for Cartes & Secure Connexions, the exhibition grounds were fairly quiet on the opening day, Tuesday 17th of…

On Semi set to buy Fairchild for $2.4 billion
On Semi set to buy Fairchild for $2.4 billion
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On Semiconductor Corp. is set to buy Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. The two companies have agreed an all cash deal that values Fairchild at $20 per share or $2.4 billion.
FTDI Chip releases X-Chip breakout boards for USB 2.0 bridging
FTDI Chip releases X-Chip breakout boards for USB 2.0 bridging
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FTDI Chip has introduced an array of new breakout boards, simplifying the bridging of USB 2.0 (full speed) signals to serial or parallel interfaces based on its X-Chip series USB…
Sub-1 GHz RF chip spans 20 km on a coin cell
Sub-1 GHz RF chip spans 20 km on a coin cell
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Texas Instruments' latest offerings in its SimpleLink ultra-low power platform are the SimpleLink Sub-1 GHz CC1310 wireless microcontrollers, offering up to 20 years of battery life for building and factory…
SHDSL evaluation kit features Socrates chipset
SHDSL evaluation kit features Socrates chipset
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In partnership with Teleconnect GmbH, Wurth Electronics Midcom is announcing the availability of the Socrates evaluation kit for SHDSL Ethernet First Mile (EFM) Modems, featuring Lantiq's Socrates SHDSL chipset.
Radiall and FCI partners on OCTIS
Radiall and FCI partners on OCTIS
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Radiall and FCI announce their joint partnership to develop and promote the OCTIS (Outdoor Connector Transceiver Inside System).
element14 sign to distribute ARM across Asia-Pacific region
element14 sign to distribute ARM across Asia-Pacific region
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element14 claims it has become the largest global distributor of ARM development tools, software, evaluation boards and debug hardware thanks to a new franchise agreement with global semiconductor IP vendor…
CSM intensifies sales activities in Turkey
CSM intensifies sales activities in Turkey
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CSM is intensifying its international sales activities through a partnership with the Turkish Distributor emTEST Engineering. emTEST will take over the sales and support of CSM solutions in Turkey.
UHD TV adoption will hit viewers’ energy bills
UHD TV adoption will hit viewers’ energy bills
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The latest UHD or 4K televisions consume about 30 percent more power than their HDTV predecessors and add significantly to the cost of users' electricity bills, according to a report…
Samsung FinFET Exynos 8 has custom cores
Samsung FinFET Exynos 8 has custom cores
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced the launch of the Exynos 8 octa-core 8890, the company’s second application processor built on its 14nm FinFET manufacturing process.
Unused pins come back to bite
Unused pins come back to bite
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James Bryant, who was an applications manager for Analog Devices for 30 years, considers what is the second-most common cause of analog design problems (The most common cause is grounding).
Low-power Wi-Fi IoT platform enables secure cloud access
Low-power Wi-Fi IoT platform enables secure cloud access
Atmel (San Jose, CA) has disclosed a path to ultra-low-power Wi-Fi connectivity to the WeChat IoT platform, enabling secure cloud access for IoT applications.
Faster charging with Qi-certified power transmitter reference design
Faster charging with Qi-certified power transmitter reference design
ROHM has received certification from Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) for the company's reference design using the BD57020MWV wireless power transmitter IC which is claimed to be the first device in…
Blueprint for compact NFC designs
Blueprint for compact NFC designs
Proven boostedNFC technology from ams AG, which enables reliable NFC coupling in space-constrained devices, has been implemented in a complete system development board that is compatible with the popular STM32…
Lens-free flat camera addresses emerging imaging applications
Lens-free flat camera addresses emerging imaging applications
Researchers at Rice University (Houston, Texas) will be presenting a research paper on FlatCam - a camera system that replaces lenses with a coded mask and computation - at the…
Flow measuring system powers itself
Flow measuring system powers itself
The flow of petrol in a fuel dispenser or pipeline can be read remotely using an energy harvesting solution developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. The benefit…
VATN LCDs offer an alternative to OLEDs – from distribution
VATN LCDs offer an alternative to OLEDs – from distribution
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Distributor Farnell element14 has Midas Display's VATN LCDs, which offer a high quality, high contrast alternative to standard STN and FSTN LCDs. The black background and a wide choice of…
PEZY licenses 64-bit MIPS CPUs for “green” supercomputers
PEZY licenses 64-bit MIPS CPUs for “green” supercomputers
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Japanese supercomputing venture PEZY Computing has announced it is working on a MIPS64-based PEZY-SC2 family of many-core chips for supercomputers and HPC (high-performance-computing) applications that will scale up to 4096…
Cadence hosts emulation on “datacentre-class” installations
Cadence hosts emulation on “datacentre-class” installations
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Cadence says it, “Ushers in [a] new era of datacenter-class emulation” with its Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform. Claims include up to 5x greater emulation throughput, with an average 2.5x…
AMD initiative to encourage spread of GPU computing
AMD initiative to encourage spread of GPU computing
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AMD has launched its ‘Boltzmann Initiative’, that aims to 'dramatically' reduce barriers to GPU computing, using its own AMD FirePro Graphics as a vehicle; new tools promise compute power of…
Dual wavelength VNA simplifies characterization of optoelectronic devices
Dual wavelength VNA simplifies characterization of optoelectronic devices
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Anritsu has introduced two options for the company's MN4765B series of O/E calibration modules that help to create a highly accurate, flexible, and cost-effective solution for the characterization of optoelectronic…
Flood light using COB LEDs provides 115-lumens per watt
Flood light using COB LEDs provides 115-lumens per watt
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GlacialLight, the lighting division of GlacialTech Inc., has added the GL-FL55 to the company's flood light series.
Qi-certified medium power transmitter reference design
Qi-certified medium power transmitter reference design
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ROHM has received certification from WPC (Wireless Power Consortium) for its reference design using the BD57020MWV wireless power transmitter IC. This claims to be the first device in the world…
Board provides hardware and software blueprint for compact NFC designs
Board provides hardware and software blueprint for compact NFC designs
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Boosted NFC technology from ams AG, which enables reliable NFC coupling in space-constrained devices, has been implemented in a complete system development board that is compatible with the popular STM32…
ROHM unveils world’s first Qi-certified medium power transmitter reference design
ROHM unveils world’s first Qi-certified medium power transmitter reference design
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ROHM has received certification from Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) for the company's reference design using the BD57020MWV wireless power transmitter IC which is claimed to be the first device in…


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