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DC/DC controller powers application processors
DC/DC controller powers application processors
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Accepting an input voltage from 4 to 34V, the R1272S synchronous step-down DC/DC controller from Ricoh serves as a power…
Percepio Tracealyzer adds IAR Embedded Workbench plug-in
Percepio Tracealyzer adds IAR Embedded Workbench plug-in
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Percepio AB, the Swedish developer of RTOS visualisation tools, has added a plug-in for IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.
Introductory kit RFID systems
Introductory kit RFID systems
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Designed specifically to help new users understand the ease and flexibility of configuring RFID solutions, the introductory kit announced by…
Total internal reflection lens mounts directly onto bare LEDs
Total internal reflection lens mounts directly onto bare LEDs
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Escatec's has designed a miniaturised Total Internal Reflection (TIR) lens for high brightness LEDs so small that it can be…

Inorganic materials take perovskites to 16% solar efficiency
Inorganic materials take perovskites to 16% solar efficiency
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Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan claim to have improved the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells to more than 16% while employing…
Open-source brain-computer interfaces capture DIY makers’ imagination
Open-source brain-computer interfaces capture DIY makers’ imagination
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Last year, Joel Murphy and Conor Russomanno have successfully completed a kickstarter campaign for their OpenBCI (open-source Brain-computer interface), a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform who anyone could build to…
AMD pushes GPUs through new HSA tools
AMD pushes GPUs through new HSA tools
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Under its “Boltzmann Initiative”, AMD has announced a suite of tools designed to ease development of high-performance, energy efficient heterogeneous computing systems.
Ford fathoms out human-machine interaction for autonomous driving
Ford fathoms out human-machine interaction for autonomous driving
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US carmaker Ford Motor Company has started testing autonomous driving in the University of Michigan’s open-air test lab. A Ford spokesperson disagreed with reports that the OEM pursuits a similar…
Datacenter-ready emulation platform supports up to 9.2 billion gates
Datacenter-ready emulation platform supports up to 9.2 billion gates
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With its Palladium Z1 enterprise emulation platform, Cadence claims a 5x greater emulation throughput with an average 2.5x greater workload efficiency than its closest competitor, all at one tenth the…
MOST networks get link into Genivi
MOST networks get link into Genivi
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The next Linux Mainline Kernel will contain a driver for the MOST infotainment data network technology. Thus, the MOST world can be integrated into the Linux-based infotainment operating system Genivi.
ACOSAR project enables system simulation early in design
ACOSAR project enables system simulation early in design
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Stricter emission legislation, rising complexity and the demand for an ever-increasing number of variations pose significant challenges to European carmakers. To reduce development time and cost, the companies along the…
Huawei reveals rapid charge batteries: 50% capacity charged in minutes
Huawei reveals rapid charge batteries: 50% capacity charged in minutes
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Watt Lab, which belongs to the Central Research Institute at Huawei Technology Corporation Limited, has unveiled protoype quick charging lithium-ion batteries that claim they can be charged 10 times faster…
Mobile ultrasound system offers handheld ‘body checker’
Mobile ultrasound system offers handheld ‘body checker’
Socionext – a Fujitsu/Panasonic joint venture – will show its "viewphii" mobile solution for ultrasound imaging at the MEDICA exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany, November 16-19.
Ultra-low-power MCU smashes previous power benchmark record
Ultra-low-power MCU smashes previous power benchmark record
Ambiq Micro (Austin, TX) has announced that its ultra-low power Apollo MCU has achieved a score on EEMBC's ULPBench of 377 - more than twice the previous leader's submission of…
Quantum dots made from fool’s gold promise better batteries
Quantum dots made from fool’s gold promise better batteries
Researchers at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) have found a way to make quantum dots out of iron pyrite - otherwise known as fool's gold - to produce batteries that charge…
Blue LEDs as Alzheimer’s treatment?
Blue LEDs as Alzheimer’s treatment?
Korean researchers have used blue LED lights to investigate how photoactive chemicals offer a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
Stable MLCCs maintain capacitance with increased applied DC
Stable MLCCs maintain capacitance with increased applied DC
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Design engineers looking for capacitors to have a more defined change of capacitance with applied with voltage can specify the VC1 range from Syfer Technology (Knowles Capacitors). Residual capacitance of…
Rugged IGBTs extend operational lifetime and efficiency in PV & UPSs
Rugged IGBTs extend operational lifetime and efficiency in PV & UPSs
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Infineon has improved IGBT performance with the release of the S5 (S for soft) family. It is based on the ultra-thin wafer TRENCHSTOP 5 IGBT. This family has been developed…
Altium adds software integrity analysis for automotive safety
Altium adds software integrity analysis for automotive safety
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Altium has announced software integrity analysis to provide embedded developers with effective processes to analyse their code for automotive safety integrity levels; the tool set will be made available as…
Linux driver enables MOST for Linux ecosystem
Linux driver enables MOST for Linux ecosystem
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The MOST Cooperation - the standardisation organisation for the Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) automotive multimedia network has announced that the Linux Mainline Kernel starting with Version 4.3 will include…
FloTHERM thermal simulation with automated model calibration
FloTHERM thermal simulation with automated model calibration
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The latest version of Mentor Graphics' FloTHERM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package delivers an automated method to calibrate simulation models to match transient thermal measurements recorded with the Mentor…
MCC acquires Data Translation to strengthen data acquisition folio
MCC acquires Data Translation to strengthen data acquisition folio
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Measurement Computing (MCC) has acquired Data Translation (DT), a leading designer, manufacturer, and provider of data acquisition solutions for the test and measurement marketplace.
Alzheimer’s Disease: Are blue LED lights a treatment alternative?
Alzheimer’s Disease: Are blue LED lights a treatment alternative?
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A Korean research team has used blue LED lights to investigate how photoactive chemicals offer a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease.
Thin dual-band flexible circuit antennas
Thin dual-band flexible circuit antennas
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Antenova Ltd has announced the three first flexible FPC antennas from its new family of “flexiiANT” products for applications in industrial and consumer electronics.
Proximity sensor controls RF exposure from smartphones and tablets
Proximity sensor controls RF exposure from smartphones and tablets
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With the aim of enabling phone and tablet makers to minimise radio frequency exposure in next generation handheld products, Semtech has developed a sensor that distinguishes human body from other…
Finnish startup develops optics for augmented reality
Finnish startup develops optics for augmented reality
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Founded a month ago as a spin-off from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, startup Dispelix Oy has developed special gratings and optical waveguides that can route any image…
Rugged IGBTs extend operational lifetime and efficiency in PV and UPSs
Rugged IGBTs extend operational lifetime and efficiency in PV and UPSs
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Infineon has improved IGBT performance with the release of the S5 (S for soft) family. It is based on the ultra-thin wafer TRENCHSTOP 5 IGBT. This family has been developed…
Socionext shows sensor-to-cloud, hand-held medical ultrasound
Socionext shows sensor-to-cloud, hand-held medical ultrasound
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Socionext – the Fujitsu/Panasonic joint venture – has built its SoC VLSI silicon into a completely portable, cableless, compact device and cloud system, offering excellent usability for mobile ultrasound imaging.


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